How do we affect culture? How can an understanding of economics get us there? We can look at history to get an understanding of many instances of culture...
The separation of faith and calling by Christians, along with the loss of the Biblical doctrine of work, had a devastating effect on the landscape of American culture...
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...
“What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects–with their Christianity latent.” ― C.S. Lewis Ed. Note: This...
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