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The Relationship Between Art & Church
Today over at Christ and Pop Culture, I took a look at the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of the tricky relationship between art and evangelical Christianity. There is serious historical baggage that has led to current views of art within the church that are unhealthy. Beholding great art is often simply not attempted because of … Continue reading
Dostoyevsky on Passion 2013
Today at Christ and Pop Culture, I took on, in brevity, the issue of youthful zeal without commitment in young evangelicals today. The Passion conference seems to be a spiritual jump starter for thousands of young evangelicals, which is not always a bad thing. As a matter of fact, I have personally seen Passion and … Continue reading
Top 10 of 2012 (That aren’t from 2012 at all)
Okay, with all of these ‘year-end-best-of lists’ blogging us down (get it?), I kind of feel left out. Sure, I write for a blog that deals almost exclusively with popular (new) culture and I (in theory) run a blog about contemporary culture and timeless theology but lets get real: it’s hard to keep up. … Continue reading
Morning After Blues: Sobering Up After The False Promises of The Election
After billions of dollars of campaign money, months of savage punditry and enough rhetoric to embitter most of the population, it’s all over. Twitter talk has died down while evangelical voters post tweets about the lordship of Jesus that they snarked at in the heat of the election and Obama voters gloat, as if the … Continue reading
My Historical & Theological Case For Political Repentance
Today over at Christ and Pop Culture I have taken on a cultural juggernaut: voting. I wrote a lengthy feature on the historical and theological case for political repentance. While it is not a popular position within American Evangelicalism today, I believe that it is important to dialogue about. I am hoping for much dialogue, feedback … Continue reading
Seven Websites That Will Enrich Your Life
In the sea of the internet, it is easy to drown. But if you learn the ropes and travel wisely, it can be a dear friend. These are my go-to websites for helpful information, spiritual nourishment and cultural relevance. If instead of wasting hours and hours of time on facebook, we diversified our online portfolio … Continue reading
Stephen Prothero | The American Bible
“To be an American is not to subscribe to a common creed. It is to engage in a common conversation”. I would not consider myself much involved in politics or patriotism to any degree of intensity beyond casual, but this conversation cannot be ignored. Traditionally, America’s greatest strength was it’s free range of ideas, ideologies … Continue reading
God, Country and Gay Marriage: 7 Counterpoints
The evangelical blogosphere has been abuzz with gay marriage talk now for the past week, ever since the North Carolina voters amended their constitution to make sure marriage would stay heterosexual and President Obama openly supported gay marriage. And might I say, I am disappointed by the Christian talk on gay marriage. Frankly, I think … Continue reading
Gospel-Centered Law: how to fight a new legalism
“Men’s hearts are idol factories. Gospel-centered men are no different. What can be done?” There’s a lot of big, exciting things happening in the church today. Within the circle that I run in awesome, awesome, awesome things are happening. Christians are getting the gospel in ways that haven’t been seen on a movement scale in generations. … Continue reading
Review: The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler
The Explicit Gospel is a book that is going to fly off the shelves. There are a lot of reasons for that, but foremost it’s Matt Chandler- an evangelical celebrity in his own right, releasing his first book. Most of the “Christian celebrities” (still not totally comfortable with that idea) have a few books out and … Continue reading
