Culture

“… David Well’s famous definition: worldliness is whatever makes righteousness look strange and sin look normal. Here’s the reality facing every Christian in the West: the money, power, and prestige of the mainstream media, big time sports, big business, big tech, and almost all the institutions of education and entertainment are invested in making sin look normal.

“We now have the work of art that defines our age…. The Italian artist Salvatore Garau has created a sculpture entitled Io Sono, which means ‘I am.’ It is invisible; that is to say, there is nothing there. He has sold it for $18,000. Garau claims that it does, in a sense, exist, as a sort of vacuum.” - Veith

“Think about the goodness of God that saved us. It was the kindness of God extended to undeserving sinners in their time of greatest need. With that as a model perhaps the fruit of goodness is just that. It is kindness. But more than kindness it is kindness extended to even our enemies.” - Ref21

6 Ways Christians Can Be Wiser in Political Engagement

“Tom Holland’s Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World is a substantial work that makes a straightforward case. In Holland’s view, the teachings of Jesus constituted an ethical revolution that would gradually transform human consciousness, to the extent that we today find it hard to imagine credible alternative systems.” - Christianity Today

Robert Gagnon: Much as in the Book of Revelation, our ability to do business in the world is being increasingly inhibited, as though with the mark of the Beast, until we bow down to this [LGBTQ] idol.

Carl Trueman: “[P]ersonhood in modern America is fundamentally sexual … Few parents, I suspect, would be happy about the person next door, or some random person in the street, talking to their children this way. Why should schools assume the right to do so?”

Logos.com Blog: Paul “engaged popular culture so he could better communicate the gospel.”