Culture

Article Bridging the Partisan Divide in Church
- By Mike Slaughter
- Posted on October 19th, 2011
In my thirty-two years of ministry at Ginghamsburg I had never asked anyone about their political affiliations, but I was ready to take the bold leap of faith and do so right in…
Article Contagious Christianity
- By George G. Hunter III
- Posted on September 27th, 2011
What makes Christianity contagious? We are sufficiently familiar with some of the answers: Contagious Christianity is imaginative, engaging, enthusiastic, and growing. Those …
Article The Cultural Commute
- By Keith Anderson
- Posted on September 6th, 2011
People sometimes drive many miles to church on Sunday—but that's not the only commute they have to make. They also have to make a cultural commute. They commute from …
Article Culture Isn't Killing the Church. Grief Is.
- By Keith Anderson
- Posted on August 24th, 2011
I recently attended a retreat with a number of church friends. We spent part of our time together looking at sociological data on religion in America over the last 60 years. We…
Article God's Verdict on Video Games
- By Mike Poteet
- Posted on July 22nd, 2011
On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in the case of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, that a California law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to…
Article Seniors and Technology
- By Robert Spain
- Posted on July 19th, 2011
Back in March, we were glued to our televisions watching the earthquake-induced tsunami racing onto the shores of Northern Japan. I could hardly believe what I was seeing. It was…