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Return to the Sacred: Dispelling the Darkness in the World
Paperback
Publisher: Saint Dominic's Media, Inc.
Published: Jun 16 2026
Pages: 388
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
We have lost too much of what belongs to God, and in losing the sacred, we have begun to lose ourselves.
Every crisis of the last century, down to the day the church doors were locked during COVID-19, has quietly robbed us of something holy. The deepest loss is also the hardest to name: our sense of the sacred itself, God's merciful reminder that He is still with us.
In Return to the Sacred, editor David L. Gray gathers some of the most compelling clerics, thinkers, and evangelists in the Church today and puts to each of them three urgent questions:
What sacred things have we lost? How did we lose them? And how can they be recovered?
Their answers fill these pages, plain, sometimes blunt, always from the heart. You'll hear an evangelist who has spent decades on the road, a religious sister, a moral theologian, a Dominican, deacons and parish priests, a composer of sacred music, a convert from the abortion industry, and writers who have given their lives to the interior life. They do not always agree, and you will not always agree with them. But every one of them has stood close to something holy and watched the world try to take it away.
This is not a call to retreat into the past. It is a summons to hold fast to the sacred things we still have, the Eucharist, the body, marriage, beauty, reverence, fasting, sacred time, and sacred space, and to love them as fiercely as we can, while there is still time.
Inside, you'll find candid conversations on:
- The real presence and the recovery of reverence
- The sacredness of the human body, marriage, and masculinity
- How sacred music, art, and architecture form (or deform) the soul
- The sexual revolution's assault on the sacred
- Fasting, discipline, and the disciplines we abandoned
- What it will actually take to reclaim the sacred in our own lifetime
Featuring conversations with Doug Barry, Roxie Beckles, Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, Sister Anne Faran, Father Justin Farr, Father Richard Heilman, Michael Hichborn, Brian Holdsworth, Jerry Jacobs Jr., Dr. Abby Johnson, Father Edward Looney, Father John Lovell, Deacon Christopher Major, James Marck, Father Gregory Maturi O.P., Joe McClane, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Paul A. Nelson, Father David Nix, Jordan Pacheco, Matthew Plese, Steve Ray, David Skuban, Dr. Janet Smith, David Torkington, Michael Voris, and Elizabeth Yore.
Read slowly. Argue back. Then go and reclaim the sacred, while there is still time.
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