By: Clint Baldwin on June 30, 2014
To summarize and render a text a fairly complete injustice — God’s hard to get rid of. There you go. Done. Point is that some of the greatest minds and cultural movements have tried really intriguing ways to get rid of God, but…no dice. That is, God might metamorphosize and/or lie dormant for a while,…
By: Miriam Mendez on June 29, 2014
For some weird reason there was a song stuck in my head as I began to read this book. The song was one that, as a young child, I remembered from Sunday Bible School: “God is not dead, he is still alive—I feel God in my feet (stomp, stomp), I feel God in my hands…
By: Mark Steele on June 28, 2014
In my college days, I considered myself a mountaineer. I had ample opportunity to climb mountains like Mt. Rainier, Mt. Baker and Mt. Whitney as well as climbing the cliffs of Yosemite Valley. What I liked about climbing is that it enabled me to get above the clouds and see the bigger beautiful picture of…
By: Richard Rhoads on June 28, 2014
It was March 1st, 1997. I had just said, “I do!” to Naomi, who was now my wife. It was an amazing day filled with family, loved ones and great friends. Just as special, was our next day walking to our terminal at the airport. See, being the hopeless romantic I decided to surprise my…
By: rhbaker275 on June 27, 2014
“Is ‘God Is Dead’ Dead?” I began my undergraduate studies in the mid-nineteen sixties. It was a time of turbulence and turmoil. President Lynden Johnson rapidly escalated the Vietnam War when he took office following the assassination of President John Kennedy. The social, political and economic upheaval and chaos were rooted in the expanding civil…
By: Richard Volzke on June 27, 2014
This week’s reading directly illustrated the fact that religion is being removed from culture across the globe. Eagleton begins by referencing a 2011 survey from Britain which concluded that, “61 per cent of the respondents claimed to have a religion, but only 29 per cent of them claimed to be religious.”[1] I’m not sure if…
By: Sandy Bils on June 27, 2014
Most storms are not produced by pressure, but more by de-pressure, a vacuum that draws and pumps masses of air. It’s not always the pushing force that produces a shift and motion, but sometimes also the lack or deficit. Some think, we live in times, were religion is more and more marginalized, up to a…
By: Mitch Arbelaez on June 27, 2014
The parable goes like this….“Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: “I seek God! I seek God!”—-As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got…
By: Julie Dodge on June 27, 2014
Last night I took myself out for a lovely Lebanese dinner while reading Terry Eagleton’s Culture and the Death of God.[i] A you ng family of four came in shortly after I, and was seated across from me. I couldn’t help but be enamored by them; the dad engaging consciously with his young son, while…
By: Telile Fikru Badecha on June 27, 2014
Culture and the Death of God by Eagleton Terry is interesting but admittedly I needed to read it a couple of times to digest his perspective. The author quotes and paraphrases a number of other intellectuals’ works which are perfectly relevant to his viewpoints and require his readers to be familiar with the sources he…
By: Sam Stephens on June 27, 2014
I have been receiving several malicious ‘hate tweets’ over the last few days in response to my last tweet about my time with leaders and church planters in eastern India and the fact that the church is multiplying there. The one received today I thought was interesting. It said that people in Pakistan, Afghanistan and…
By: Michael Badriaki on June 27, 2014
Terry Eagleton’ book titled “Culture and the death of God” picked my interested for particular reasons. From the onset, I was impressed by Eagleton’s evidently brilliant layout of the changing relationship in religious affairs, mythology and art during the enlightenment through modernity and in post modernity. During the course of reading Eagleton’s literature, I found…
By: Carol McLaughlin on June 27, 2014
First things first, I felt a lot like Marlin trying to understand the turtle in the movie Finding Nemo, “You’re cute, kid, but I can’t understand a thing you’re saying.” While I recognize the value and need for us to discuss and unpack the differing influences from the Enlightenment and the transition from modernity to…
By: Fred Fay on June 27, 2014
One of my favorite stories I have shared with children is about Martin the Cobbler. He is the central character in Leo Tolstoy’s classic called “Where Love Is”. Martin, because of some very difficult situations in his life, has denied God. But through a visit of a missionary and a dream he believes God will…
By: David Toth on June 26, 2014
I met a fellow benchrest shooter a few days ago and we took the opportunity to have a conversation. He was quite talkative and needed no prodding to begin a long discourse on his reloading process and benchrest shooting style. For the unbaptized, benchrest shooting is an exacting discipline that requires precise and consistent load…
By: Phil Smart on June 26, 2014
Culture and the Death of God – Eagleton There are billboards on our interstate highway leading to downtown Grand Rapids that say……”you can be good and be atheist.” This is quite the shocker in my very religious Reformed area of the United States (the picture I’ve included is more akin to our area!). Eagleton, in…
By: Bill Dobrenen on June 26, 2014
In his very philosophical and satirical style, Terry Eagleton[1] attempts to uncover the flaws in modern philosophical thought that have attempted to defame religion, specifically Christianity, in Western culture. His style is very academic; yet he occasionally comes up for air to interpret and relate to a non-academic mind. Eagleton, to his credit, is arguing…
By: Chris Ellis on June 26, 2014
Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton is an academic world-wind history of the 300-year funeral for God and the search to replace the idea of God with something else. It’s a project that Eagleton argues has failed and will continue to fail. What’s fascinating to me is that one wouldn’t think of…
By: Ashley Goad on June 26, 2014
Last week, I read Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton. Last week, I also spent ten days in a small village outside of Mukono, Uganda. In the middle of a three-acre farm sits Agape Christian Academy and Orphanage. Fourty-four children, all losing one or both parents to AIDS, live here full-time. Another…
By: Liz Linssen on June 26, 2014
According to the UK Office for National Statistics, (ONC), Christianity is officially in steep decline in England and Wales. The figure for those who claim to hold to Christianity across all regions in these countries fell from 71.7 percent in 2001 to 59.3 percent in 2011. [1] Even more dramatic is the sharp increase of…
