This week we’re concluding our series on “The Work of Our Hands.” Yesterday we explored the extremes people take in their view or work: either as an idol...
I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards…I bought male and female slaves…I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before...
We’ve been talking about shaping culture – but there is one question we haven’t explored: is cultural change even possible? It is thought that cultures are profoundly resistant...
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...
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