Culture… A Theology for Hipsters (17): Hipster Hot Topics (Part 3) 27 Oct 201128 Oct 2011 Cultural Indulgence On Sunday evenings my family and I have used to have a regular routine: go to church, visit with our church family after service, and then rush home…
Asides… It Can Happen To Our Churches 12 Oct 2011 Colin Hansen has a great, if disturbing, article over at The Gospel Coalition that explores the reality that faithful, gospel churches can, over time, turn away from the Orthodox faith.…
Culture… A Theology for Hipsters (Part 12): Rebelling Against Fundamentalism (Part 2) 22 Sep 201123 Sep 2011 Today’s brand of Fundamentalism has continued to maintain the name, but has diverged from the spirit of older Fundamentalism. With the increasing cultural shift Fundamentalism has moved away from the…
Asides… Mumford & Sons Theology 5 Sep 2011 Routinely when I express that I am a huge Mumford fan I get this question: Is Mumford & Sons a Christian band? It's a fair question if you pay attention…
Culture… A Theology for Hipsters (Part 8): The Evolution of Cool (Part 4) 25 Aug 201126 Aug 2011 In our own 21st century many of these same hippie themes (which we talked about last week) have persisted. Individualism rules the American conscience so that all things in our…
Culture… A Theology for Hipsters (Part 7): The Evolution of Cool (Part 3) 18 Aug 201119 Aug 2011 “The times they are a changing” wrote Bob Dylan, and no lyrics seem more fit to describe the era that was, simply, the Sixties. Hippy culture was actually a direct…
Asides… Contextualized Ministry 17 Aug 2011 Here are some interesting reads on this often discussed subject: 1) Cultural Relevance and Living Sent by Ed Stetzer 2) Get Better at Contextualization by Jonathan Dodson 3) Contextualization without…
Culture… Alarmism, Legalism, and The Gospel Focus 16 Aug 201125 Aug 2011 I get that ours is a culture that feeds off of critics and haters. We love the juicy in-the-news stories of teen-pop stars at war with one another. And of…
Culture… A Theology for Hipsters (Part 6): The Evolution of Cool (Part 2) 11 Aug 201112 Aug 2011 Historian John Leland has contended that the history of “hip” is very much the history of America[1], and McCracken states that America was a nation born to be cool.[2] One…
Books… A Better Model: A Review of “Christ & Culture Revisited” by D.A. Carson 8 Aug 20119 Aug 2011 Some subjects are easy to address, like who was the best Power Ranger (the Red one, of course). Some are simply inane, like which 80s metal band was greatest (nobody…
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