Recovered Wisdom II: Christianity and Christendom

"Every day I say to myself, today I will begin." - St. Antony of the Desert

From part one, found here:

I sometimes consider Christianity in the same way, that there was once a form of spiritual knowledge that was lost and supplanted by what is known as Christendom, the church-as-establishment. Somewhere on a metaphoric shelf, perhaps in pieces, is something that may be valuable in our troubled times.

It has become trendy in conte…