On la nouvelle theologie, Chris Burgwald said:

"I’d submit that the vast majority of Americans fail to structure their lives according to their faith at an ontological (as opposed to moral) level."

I stand as one indicted by this charge, and guilty. Yet, I'm not sure what to do about it.

"Will the veiled sister pray for
Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee,
Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between
Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait
In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray
For children at the gate
Who will not go away and cannot pray:
Pray for those who chose and oppose

O my people, what have I done unto thee.

Will the veiled sister between the slender
Yew trees pray for those who offend her
And are terrified and cannot surrender
And affirm before the world and deny between the rocks
In the last desert before the last blue rocks
The desert in the garden the garden in the desert
Of drouth, spitting from the mouth the withered apple-seed.

O my people."

From Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot