How to Think About Fallenness

A guide for the secular-minded.

Greetings from Croatia, where I’m visiting my parents and working remotely. As I write, war is in the air. When one is away from solipsistic Washington, where everything has somehow been reduced to a story about Kamala Harris, the logic of conflict is more difficult to ignore.

Outside of the hothouse of American politics, a wider war in the Middle East l…