Why is it that the types of Christians most comfortable with thinking of themselves as different than the world are most inclined towards unquestioning consumerism and war-mongering?
Note: I have no research to back this up, only impressions, perceived patterns and, no doubt, prejudice.
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Baker Academic’s The Church and Postmodern Culture series will have a new entry in August by Carl Raschke called GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn. The series’ blog has a new post by Raschke to whet our appetities. Here’s a quote that shows that Raschke is doing some interesting thinking about globalization:
In a day-to-day […]
I haven’t felt any compulsion to write lately, so I haven’t.
If you’re hurting for interesting reading, go check out the church and postmodern culture’s beginning engagement with Jack Caputo’s What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The series announcement states that there will be 6 engagements, each interacting with a successive chapter. The first two have already appeared.
There’s been a convergence for me as of late. The idea of liturgy sounds increasingly more attractive all of the time as I navigate various shades of disillusionment with typical evangelical expressions of the church gathered.
I remember a few years ago being perplexed by all of the younger adults moving from the Vineyard church I was […]
I’m reading James K.A. Smith’s Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church, which has a point that resonates very strongly with what I’m struggling about regarding church. (Not that I’m struggling against “them,” but “me.”)
Within the matrix of a modern Christianity, the base “ingredient” is the individual; the church, then, is simply […]
Jaclyn and I are currently reading through Alan Hirsch’s “The Forgotten Ways” together. What I love about this book is that it lays out what many have been saying and feeling for some time now: the church in the West must relate to the culture it finds itself in as cross-cultural ministries; no different than […]
