Hunting Magic Eels is a map for burned-out Christians. Beck, himself burned out by years of doubt and Christendom, wrote this book as an antidote to focusing too much on the wrong things. His idea is that we live in a time of a reduced existence: We’ve reduced humans to meat, redwoods to lumber, art to content. “Welcome to the ache,” he writes. We have a chalk outline of what’s missing from our hearts, but we don’t know how to fill it. Why is life […]