The years around 1900 were marked by an international aesthetic movement known as ‘Arts and Crafts’. Turning their backs on cheap and often shoddy mass-produced goods, its proponents argued for individually constructed furniture, clothing, tableware and even buildings, often employing simple patterns and local materials. As a formula for an urban lifestyle suitable for tens of millions, the movement failed. But as an image of the spiritual life, it retains its potency. For the truth is that God does not mass-produce human lives. There are at least as many ways of living out faithful discipleship as there are those willing to try it. Certainly, these patterns of life fall into broad categories: lay and clerical, communal and solitary, conservative and radical. But no two individuals will combine these elements in identical patterns. This issue of The Way reflects upon a variety of shapes that the Christian life can assume.
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