“In a Western culture where institutions generally and the church particularly have fallen out of favor, we’re delighted to award the Book of the Year spot to Brad Edwards’s debut book, The Reason for Church: Why the Body of Christ Still Matters in an Age of Anxiety, Division, and Radical Individualism.” - CToday
Read the series.
Christians have a broad range of attitudes toward the “supernatural” in society—mostly in fiction, film, and gaming. To hark back to the 70’s and 80’s, many Christians were concerned about Ouija boards, 8-balls, Dungeons and Dragons, and the symbology of the traditional card deck. That expanded to various heavy metal rock groups and “backward masking.”
“How Christians relate to politics and culture war right now is a huge issue. Lots of people are contrasting Tim Keller’s approach, sometimes called the third way approach, with more bold approaches like Charlie Kirk’s approach.” - Truth Unites
“And before you dismiss this as simply a representation of the ‘same old third way,’ it’s not. Parts of that approach need to be jettisoned, but parts need to be maintained. Let me explain.” - TGC
“as helpful a correction as Radical is to a real problem in American Christianity, Platt nevertheless overcorrects and creates an unhealthy and unwarranted expectation…. In this article, I’m going to focus on three areas where I think Horton offers a helpful counter-correction to Platt.” - Christ Over All
“Politics and religion sometimes collapse into each other. Christianity and the Republican party become so enmeshed in someone’s mind that they forget they have more in common with a ‘woke’ Christian who is genuinely converted and living for Christ than with their redneck, gun-loving MAGA neighbor who has rejected the gospel.” - P&D
“the nation apparently continues to suffer from a lack of empathy, a deficit exemplified by, among other things, fresh waves of antisemitism …. a growing movement of evangelicals has a different take. To them, the nation suffers, not from a deficit of empathy, but an excess of it.” - C.Leaders
“In this series, we will explore the overlap of a few ancient heresies with the modern Western worldview in order to articulate a Christian response or alternative.” - IFWE
“At its best, Christianity is not a moralistic religion — in other words, it does not place the expectation of perfect behaviour at its core. It is repentance and reconciliation, not respectability, that are central to the internal logic of the faith. The Christian moral system is also coherent and predictable.” - Unherd
“A vibe shift is underway…. It’s easy to get excited about some of the cultural shifts. But it’s important to appreciate how far we’ve strayed from anything resembling traditional faith or values. It’ll take a vast shift to reverse these decades-old trends, which now have deep roots in contemporary culture.” - TGC
