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Media Identity

By: Fred Fay on April 3, 2014

Last week I watched the animated movie Frozen. It is a Disney adaptation of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson. I have two girls, young adults, who just love it. I found myself being taken in also by the story and music. The theme of rejection, family pain and finding one’s identity in a…

The Telephone

By: Chris Ellis on April 3, 2014

When many people think of new forms of media they might think of Twitter, Skype or whatever is the latest and greatest in communication (Holograms are next maybe? ). But to only think of those forms that are new for OUR current time and place is to miss some valuable lessons learned from studying when…

The Practice of Presence

By: Ashley Goad on April 3, 2014

Several years ago, I interviewed for a youth pastor position in northern Virginia. One of the questions was, “How would you describe your ministry to students?” While the committee expected to hear about creative programs, wild games and big mission trips, I instead told them my greatest love in youth ministry was practicing the ministry…

A Different World

By: Deve Persad on April 3, 2014

It was a different world. The patio at the back is only vague memory. What I remember more is the soft cushion of lush grass that grew on either side of the stone walkway that extended from that back patio. The walkway made its way through, winding a little bit, and then beyond the garden…

Media’s Reshaping of Discipleship

By: David Toth on April 3, 2014

It was August of 1979 when I loaded up my household goods and my family and drove to Toccoa, Georgia to attend Bible college. The plan to make this move had been activated two years earlier and most everything had gone well, except the economy. Unemployment was high and interest rates were higher yet. My…

How Large are Your Headphones?

By: Phil Smart on April 3, 2014

Always Already New: Media, History and the Data of Culture by Lisa Gitelman, looks back so that she can look forward. I felt that this was a timely book as my son who is in his mid-20s came for a visit from Chicago two weeks ago. He had taken the train and as we met…

Is modernity relative?

By: Michael Badriaki on March 30, 2014

When I get the chance to visit and live in various countries and communities, I always find myself wondering as to whether people in the non-western context experience vastly different effects of modernity. Charles Taylor’s book called Modern Social Imaginaries, labors to discuss the possibility of the presence of “multiple modernities”. Taylor notes: From the…

The upside down inequality

By: Michael Badriaki on March 30, 2014

While studying Bauman Zygmunt’ book called Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age, it was clear that the author provides a critique of modern-day social inequality, I couldn’t help but think about local and global inequity and disparities. I appreciated the perspective which promoted a vast understanding of the relationship between inequality, democracy and…

Full Peace or half Peace?

By: Michael Badriaki on March 30, 2014

In my opinion, Karl Polanyi’ book The Great Transformation, is a great resource for anyone who desires to understand the crisis of capitalism in the twenty first century. According Stiglitz, Polanyi’s book describes the great transformation of European civilization from the preindustrial world to the ear of industrialization and the shifts in ideas, ideologies, and…

The Queen of All Sciences

By: Sam Stephens on March 26, 2014

A Brief Guide to Ideas by William Raeper and Linda Edwards provides a great overview of thoughts, philosophies and ideas of the Western world since almost the beginning. The book makes it plain and clear that philosophy cannot be brushed aside as lacking relevance in the present post modern, post Christian culture as it may…

What is the Best Way to Govern People Globally?

By: Mark Steele on March 23, 2014

Raeper and Edwards in their book A Brief Guide to Ideas does a fair job summarizing philosophical and theological thought through the ages. What caught my attention was their chapter titled How Should Society be Organized (Raeper and Edwards 1997 p. 137)? I have had the opportunity to travel internationally the past few years, especially…

Water Slides and Plato

By: Richard Rhoads on March 23, 2014

Ever since my days in youth ministry I have always enjoyed a good slip and slide. A little soap, a good long sheet of plastic, a steep hill and a whole lot of water is all you need to have a whole lot of fun. So when I heard of the “Crazy Insane Water Slide”…

American Christianity in the Mirror!

By: Michael Badriaki on March 23, 2014

Douthat’s book “, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics”, is an intense and sobering read. The author’s work is informative indeed and even though it’s a magnifying polemic on American Christendom, one can’t help but feel all sorts of emotions along with follow up inquiry. Case in point, what have I believed…

The Prodigal Church: The End or A New Beginning?

By: John Woodward on March 22, 2014

The Church in America is in decline. The question many recent books have asked is why and if there is any hope? Diana Butler Bass’s Christianity After Religion provides a generous dose of statistics to illustrate the extent of this crisis. She points out that in 1970, “some 95 percent of Americans said they were…

Jesus, the Real Thing

By: Liz Linssen on March 21, 2014

According to Douthat, American Christianity has lost its moorings from the harbour of the orthodox faith. We are in an age where “the only Jesus who really matters is the one you invent for yourself.” [i] Where accommodationists imitate Jesus’ “scandalously comprehensive love, while ignoring his scandalously comprehensive judgments.” [ii] A period when conspiracy theorists…

Bad Religion

By: Telile Fikru Badecha on March 21, 2014

A couple of years ago, I was invited to share about my ministry with a mission committee at one of my ministry partner churches in the area. I gave them an overview of what we do and how their generous support helps us provide our communities with basic physical needs by building elementary schools, for…

What Got Us Here – Won’t Get Us There

By: rhbaker275 on March 21, 2014

I was encouraged in my Focus 40 devotion for day ten leading up to Easter. It addressed, in a round-about way, the theme in much of the book Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat.[1] The devotion, written by missionary Kelly Philips, faces the problem of how Christianity, which includes each…

Paradoxical Orthodoxy

By: Bill Dobrenen on March 21, 2014

What do you see in the picture above? What you see may depend on what you are looking for. Also, what you see one moment may not be there the next moment, or it might be the opposite of what you saw in the first place. Or perhaps you see two different things at the…

The Colors Tell the Story

By: Mitch Arbelaez on March 21, 2014

As I read this weeks book Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, I was awed by the author’s writing ability, not simply by his ingenious craftiness of sentence structure but by his incredible ability of synthesis – taking many historical facts both positive and negative and reconstructing in a few pages the…

Tennis, the Real Thing and …

By: Carol McLaughlin on March 21, 2014

Heresy is a word that seems to be thrown about with too much ease, almost like a ball tossed in the air for a tennis serve. Struck with passion and force it is upon its opponent quickly resulting in a defensive response. A noticeable similarity between tennis and heresy is in the volley. Yet surprisingly…

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