While people sometimes make bad decisions because they feel bad about themselves, the truth is that people make bad decisions for all sorts of reasons, including because they feel excessively good about themselves.
The reality is that the whims of the internet mob are, at best, only occasionally guided by moral clarity and a sense of true justice.
COVID-19 forces us to ask, who deserves authority and how is that authority granted?
To make an influence on the culture-at-large, Christians don’t need a big-name artist like Kanye West to co-opt the Christian message of grace, mercy, forgiveness, and justice.
By turning the cameras onto his guests, Bourdain revealed to his audience a world at once vastly diverse, painfully complex, and beautifully human.
What happens when the bad guys win? A TV show offers an illuminating answer to that question.
Drew and Tyler talk about Silence, faith, and culture with Wade Bearden and Peter J. Epps in regards to Martin Scorsese’s film Silence.
The standard explanation for the power of personal narrative is that out of a particular experience, the universal one can be understood, or at least felt, if only briefly.
To claim the United States today has no culture, as Carl Trueman does, works only if one adopts the least tenable, most outdated understanding of culture available.
When all the senses are on alert, working together? It’s transcendent.
The Christian hip-hop artist and the Christian politician both testify to God’s grace in Christ.
Entertainment, education, propaganda. We use culture in several ways. How about using it to enjoy God?
What we read in our Kindles may reveal what we hide in our hearts.
Popular music generally and Americana in particular are full of Christian relics—images, sounds, and pictures that innately yearn for their spiritual fulfillment.
“Country music doesn’t look far enough back, but it does have a traditional inclination that resonates with the heart.”
If these guys are so interested in purity, why can’t they keep their own message pure?
