You can listen to this article here There is a cultural phenomenon at play today in our societies that has taken captive the minds and hearts of many. It is a dangerous and deceptive ideology that pretends to be a vision of justice and compassion but only brings destruction and violence. It has...
You can watch the presentation of this material in lecture form here: https://youtu.be/cJqiGsikoDQ You can also listen to an audio version of this article here Or just read the article below. Many Christians today view politics as “dirty” and something secular which they should not involve...
Although some may think that the Western world has learned its lesson about Marxism, in recent times, this dangerous ideology has again come to prominence in new forms. The ideologies originated by Karl Marx and now evolved to bear rotten fruit are seeping into many areas of culture. Many today...
Freedom of Speech is a fundamental right in many modern Western nations. Yet it seems like, in recent days, it has been under increasing attack. How are we to think about these things as Christians? This podcast episode considers some important points about freedom of speech and censorship from a...
In recent times, with COVID mandates and restrictions affecting all areas of society, it has gotten a lot of Christians talking about Romans 13 and its application to the relationship between Church and State. I've seen many poor expositions of the passage and even more lamentable applications of...
In this series, we've surveyed what is the Biblical view of culture and examined its religious nature in the practices that form us, the stories that give meaning, and the groups that define us. Today, we conclude this article series on a theology of culture by considering how we should live and...
In our last few articles, we defined what culture is Biblically, then we started taking a look at the religious nature of culture. We saw that it has its own practices that shape us (its liturgies) and its stories that give meaning (its doctrine). In this article we take a look at the third...
In our first article, we laid the groundwork for a Biblical understanding of culture. In the second article, we introduced the concept of the religious nature of culture - arguing that culture is composed of liturgies (practices), stories (doctrine) and groups (community). In this article, we will...
In our first article in this series, we looked at how culture is a result of being made in the image of God and carrying out the creation mandate from Genesis 1. We also saw how the Fall has affected culture and the world we live in now. In this article, we will consider the religious nature of...
What is culture? Culture is part of the ‘natural habitat’ we inhabit daily as we live our lives, yet something - like the water fish swim in - that we seldom stop to seriously consider. It’s one of those words we throw around and assumes that everyone knows what it is and what we mean but...