What is culture? We talk a lot about changing it – but what is it we’re trying so hard to change? Theologian Donald Bloesch writes that culture “is...
We have already seen a number of the historical and theological reasons for American Christians’ cultural retreat: the two-chapter gospel the influence of Enlightenment thinking the Industrial Revolution...
As we discussed in a previous post, the idea of Christ transforming culture takes seriously the biblical narrative of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. It celebrates the goodness...
Last week I issued an assertion which was also a challenge. Change starts with us, as individuals first. We have more power through the market process to help...
For centuries, Christians have struggled to articulate an effective Biblical position regarding the church’s interaction with culture. In his classic 1951 book Christ and Culture, which is still...
If a significant part of our calling as God’s people is to reweave shalom, what will that look like in our society today? As we have seen in...
In the tent city in Babylon, a young man in the crowd heard Jeremiah’s letter and believed that it meant a new vocational call on his life. From...
Imagine an enormous tent city on the edge of the greatest metropolis in the world. The refugees who live here have been forcibly taken from their homeland by...
Hugh Whelchel has written in previous posts about “The Work of Our Hands.” His goal is to articulate what it means to fully live a life for Christ...
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