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...
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...
In a 2006 article in Christianity Today titled “Young, Restless and Reformed,” Collin Hansen noted that under the radar there has been a quiet and steady growth of...
In 1559, John Calvin began a seminary in Geneva to train young church planters. We know that Calvin sent at least 88 church planters to his native country...
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