American Culture

Christian nation? Part 2: Prayer, political agenda, and freedom of religion

“To acknowledge that England was Catholic in the fifteenth century and Protestant by the seventeenth century, and then to deny that America had a Christian beginning seems pretty naive.” Christian nation? Part 1: Mark Noll, George Washington, and revisionism

Poll: Greater religious influence would benefit U.S.

CBS: Dressing down a culture for refusing to dress up

“We have an unfortunate tendency to chase what is cool in our culture and make it the centerpiece of our ministry (often denigrating other ministries that don’t share our vision). Meanwhile, we don’t realize that we are really about 10 years behind the cultural trends anyway. We are perennial late-comers to what our world thinks is hip.” The Arrogance of the Urban, Part 2

Barna has developed a 15 question metric. “Post-Christian = meet at least 60% of the following 15 factors (9 or more factors) highly post-Christian = meet at least 80% of the following 15 factors (12 or more factors)”

“Long before plans for this cultural springtime event start to take shape, we need to begin talking with our teens about media messages and our biblical worldview.” From thrivingfamily.com

“I am not a cultural transformationalist; but if there are any such reading this blog, I might suggest that now would be a good time for you chaps to start proving me wrong. Yes, I do appreciate the cool movie reviews, the nice paintings… but I have a suspicion that it would really be much more helpful if we were seeing some transformation for the good in society’s moral and legal standards.”

“The evangelical average is a full movie more than the national adult average, and just shy of the average of 3 films seen by those professing no religion.”

In Sandy Hook Debate over Gun Control vs. Mental Health, Evangelicals Diverge from Rest of Nation