By: gfesadmin on March 14, 2013
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Human relationships and their interaction form the core of the African culture. Some were organized around kingdoms while others were organized around consensus by council of elders or a combination of the two. The family still was the basic unit of the society. The family included not…
By: gfesadmin on March 14, 2013
Welcome to the city of brotherly love! These were the first words I heard this past weekend after pulling up to the curb at our Center City Philadelphia hotel. Never have I experienced such service. Being our 16th wedding anniversary, we decided to splurge a little and stay at a hotel which is usually beyond…
By: gfesadmin on March 14, 2013
The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief, biblical foundation and practice of Christian engagement in the world.To Change the World by James D. Hunter is a book about the possible and proper role of Christianity in American culture in the early twenty-first century. Dealing with this topic…
By: gfesadmin on March 14, 2013
Is it possible to change the world? Are we called to do that? What kind of change do we desire? These are great questions that emerge for Christians who want to engage in ministry. My favorite book so far the year is the book To Change the World by James Davidson Hunter. He addresses the…
By: gfesadmin on March 14, 2013
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By: gfesadmin on March 14, 2013
I first read James Hunter’s To Change the World in 2010. In my excitement, I read through the book quickly (but thoroughly of course) hoping for some concrete steps on how to change the world. I got to the end of the book and was underwhelmed. Where was this world change? What were the actions…
By: gfesadmin on March 11, 2013
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By: gfesadmin on March 11, 2013
The Rebel Sell proved to be a fascinating read this past week. It seems that this capitalist society will consume anything thrown on its plate and create a demand – supply cycle to satiate itself. As I pondered over the idea of “Rebel Sell” andits implications for India, particularly the rural part of the country,…
By: gfesadmin on March 11, 2013
Niche markets are upon us all. As a kid, I waited with baited breath to look at one of my favorite shows of all time, The Price Is Right. Who can ever forget the voice of Rod Roddy with his jolly pitch lingering on every word, happily saying, “Come on down! You’re the next contestant…
By: gfesadmin on March 9, 2013
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By: gfesadmin on March 7, 2013
It is quite possible that the most important location in American counterculture history is the tiny Oklahoma town of Okemah. Do I have your attention? Great. We will get back to Okemah in a moment, but first on to the central argument of The Rebel Sell: How the Counterculture Became Consumer Culture by Joseph Heath…
By: gfesadmin on March 7, 2013
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.(Rom 12:12 NIV). This verse has constantly been on my mind during the past few days. Was Christianity…
By: Joy Mindo on March 7, 2013
A Nation of Rebels: Is Kenya shifting into a counterculture? Crowds are a group of people that any leader would desire to manipulate, rule and control. Leaders manipulate organized excitement. As Kenya goes through an election process for national leaders this week, Kenyans are anxious and filled with fear. Five years ago, during the…
By: gfesadmin on March 7, 2013
Action movie afficianados and those who follow the likes of Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino have most likely seen the movie HEAT. I have seen it more times than I can count. I guess that declassifies me as a Puritanical prude! Pacino is a detective who focuses on taking down a high tech crime team led by DeNiro.…
By: gfesadmin on March 7, 2013
Rebel Sell opens with a salvo against the consumerist system and its twin brother, the anti-consumerist counter-culture. The authors argue there really is no difference between the two. Thus one can buy all the anti-capitalist t-shirts one desires. The quintessential example of this is a 2003 Adbusters (a magazine dedicated to anti-consumerism) advertisement offering its own…
By: gfesadmin on March 7, 2013
In the book The Rebel Sell, Joseph Heath and Robert Putnam say the counterculture is driven by a desire to rebel against the present culture. In the 60s there was a cultural conflict between the counterculture and the established culture. But Heath and Putnam state that their values were the same. Both were entrenched in…
By: gfesadmin on March 7, 2013
On a late afternoon in the fall of 2004, my wife looked at me and said, “I think it’s time for a movie night!” Nothing else needed to be said, I was off. Just a few minutes later I found myself checking out a new thriller at the local Blockbuster Video store. It’s name, “The…
By: gfesadmin on March 6, 2013
According to Andrew Heath and Joseph Potter, the authors of the book, Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t be Jammed, theories such as the one found in the book No Logo, by Naomi Klein, are false and unproductive. The theory, they explain, is actually a critique of mass society, not capitalism. This popular theory, found…
By: gfesadmin on March 2, 2013
One of my first full time jobs out of Theological Seminary was church planting and evangelism in a large church in Southern California. Although I had never planted a church before or led evangelism, I was naive enough to take the job. I read every book or article I could find on evangelism and church…
By: gfesadmin on March 1, 2013
David Bebbington’s book, Evangelicalism In Modern Britain is truly an outstanding compilation of both history and theology providing the reader quite a methodical understanding of the subject. With great clarity Bebbington delineates the four distinct primary characteristics that underscore evangelicalism as it started in the 1730s. Conversionism: That lives need to be transformed through a…
