“We are deeply uncomfortable with ritual as a society. We have deliberately rejected it. And we also, in so doing, have diminished our ability to talk about spiritual matters in our country. And I think there is a loss that I think some of us are realizing that we need to begin to recover.”
–Katherine May, “How ‘Wintering’ Replenishes”, On Being with Krista Tippett, Jan. 21, 2021
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