The Time of Magical Thinking

Last year's Synod on Synodality was a moment of Magical Thinking, bearing no resemblance to historic Christianity.

Published in Crisis Magazine on January 16, 2024

Joan Didion’s 2005 bestseller, The Year of Magical Thinking, left her readers a bit shaken. The rending account of her husband’s death was cast in a demimonde of disturbing shadows. For quite a time it tossed her into a twilight existence of strange disconnections and fantasy expectations. Hence her tantalizing title. Her mourning bore no resemblance to reality, only a loose pastiche of semi-mad concoctions.

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