FAITH IN CULTURE
articles on the challenges and opportunities for faith in modern culture
Articles You May Have Missed 6.
The Backlash
- If we permit our relationships to be mediated digitally in the future, we may be drawing the kind of veil over our faces we are critical of some cultures for doing in practice.
Whispers We Should Not Hush
- Christians should not feel obliged to hush up their faith just because some don’t like to hear about it. I am sure you will have wondered what it must be like to live as a Christian under a totalitarian regime.
Tell Me Lies
- Rumours often make people miserable and yet we persist in passing them on. Understanding their structure and power is vital if we are to limit their capacity for damage.
Lack Sabbath
- A day of rest is one of the most tangible indicators of the character of God. The contempt with which society treats it may be one of its deepest failings.
The chances are that you have enjoyed a holiday somewhere this summer,
Smile Like You mean It
- Enforcing an unnatural sense of happiness on others is counter-productive. Joy emerges as we learn to give our lives away.
American political thinker Barbara Ehrenreich is a woman on a mission.
How To Tie A Knot
- We value training for our jobs yet learning about private relationships is considered an optional extra we can safely ignore. Why so?
Jilting the groom at the altar is the kind of worn cliché that jaded soap opera
How To Win Your Friends' Friends ' Friends And Influence Them
- You have a breathtaking amount of social influence without even realising. Did you know that friends of your friends can make you fat?
Slow Motion
- Slow would seem to be the new black. How is it that churches haven’t caught on? Slow, it would seem, is the new black. Starting with Carol Petrini’s slow food movement in Italy,