Uncategorized

1189 RESULTS

Dec 1, 2006

Topics:

Living with Liberalism: six strategies for faithfulness

Liberalism is a powerful cultural force that protects individuals and human rights, but hangs marriages and families out with the rest of the laundry. It banishes historical religious convictions, only to promote its own faith-in-reason structures instead. How does one go about living under the influence of such idolatry?

Nov 10, 2006

Topics:

Welcome to the Relationship Museum

An artist invites viewers to a gallery exhibition, where he cooks and feeds them satay skewers and spring rolls. Another artist invites participants to stake wishes and prayers to a wooden beam in his living room. In both cases, relationships are being produced…

Oct 27, 2006

Topics:

In defense of genre

Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek and George Lucas’s Star Wars trilogy-plus are both examples of the power of a genre to draw an audience. Is sci-fi nothing more than tickling the fancy?

Sep 1, 2006

Topics:

The persuasive power of incarnate truth

An example of unpersuasive Christianity comes from Albert Raboteau, who reports on a white missionary’s difficulty in witnessing to recently freed slaves: “…the freedmen’s distaste for moralistic preaching was directly rooted in their experience of the dichotomy between Christianity and the practice of Christian slaveholders.”

Aug 17, 2006

Topics:

Racism: Does the struggle continue?

Can we seriously talk about fulfilling the cultural mandate if we sit around and allow the legacy of racism to be perpetuated, even in the church? Vincent Bacote is Assistant Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, and director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics.

Jul 21, 2006

Topics:

Career, faith, and family in the city

Contemplating both the costs and blessings of city neighbourhood and community, with an eye towards providence. A meditation on Cheryl Mendelson’s Morningside Heights. Linnea Leonard Kickasola is an opera singer in New York City.