There Must Be More Than This: Identity & Spiritual Renewal in the Kingdom of "Whatever" (A Letter to My Generation)

As millennials we stand accused—of aimlessness, entitlement, indifference, lack of gratitude— merely for existing under the wrong conditions, for illustrating simply by that fact the wrongness of those conditions. This book offers an apologia for an entire generation. It is not so much a solution to our problems as an orientation allowing us to face them. It provides a way of understanding ourselves, leading us to see what our increasingly economic mode of being has lopped off and discarded. We need to rediscover meaning in a world that has become a matter of indifference to us. It will take work, it won’t be easy, and it will have to start with our generation.

“A provocative re-orientation to the spirit and outlook of millennials; a testimony of faith from a generation not supposed to have any.”—NATHAN SCHNEIDER, journalist and author of Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse

“Both radical and mindful of the radical nature of tradition, these short essays set off fireworks that signal the debut of a remarkable young social critic.”—ELIAS CRIM, founder and publisher, Solidarity Hall

“Daniel Schwindt has demonstrated with incisive clarity and sobriety that a spiritual life is a real life. Solid, relevant, perceptive, uncompromising, compassionate without sentimentality, not a word out of place.”—CHARLES UPTON, author of The System of Antichrist

“Daniel Schwindt in a very brief book has produced a very powerful message. With an economy of expression that is nearly aphoristic, he has constructed a work that simultaneously grabs our hearts and our intellects. I hope that every member of Daniel’s generation will read this book.”—JOHN C. MÉDAILLE, author of Toward a Truly Free Market

“In There Must Be More Than This, Daniel Schwindt gives utterance to the previously unarticulated existential ennui that plagues the so-called ‘millennial’ generation."—MICHAEL MARTIN, author of The Submerged Reality