FAITH IN CULTURE
articles on the challenges and opportunities for faith in modern culture
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FALLING DOWN
- Do present sins invalidate previous service for God? The warning, ‘if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall’ (1 Cor. 10:12), following hot on the heels of the Apostle Paul’s confession,
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The June 4th Incident
- Public rituals surrounding anniversaries make profound statements about the value of human beings, their absence even more so.. Important milestones are, in a sense, just a quirk of mathematics.
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Beware the Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother
- The hot-housing of children’s education is a long way from the invitation to love and curiosity God would have us make to them. At first I assumed it must be a joke. Amy Chua’s book,
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What Hush Puppies Tell Us About The Gospel
- Being a Christian is rarely fashionable and Jesus indicated this would be so; but this need not be a bar to its appeal, as the story of a brand of shoe suggests
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Taking A Joke
- Are there limits beyond which humour should not go? In the absence of a consensus, the boundaries are being pushed incrementally further. .Three days after the terrorist atrocity on 9/11 someone told me a joke about the attack....
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Don't Phone A Friend
- We reveal our truest selves in relating to those who are less powerful than we are and with whom we have only a fleeting relationship. Periodically, anxiety bubbles to the surface about the loss of manners in public life ....
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Making A Meal Of It
- The sacramental nature of the British family meal has been lost. Can it now be regained? I am not sure who first coined the phrase ‘cash-rich, time-poor’, but I think it is a clever way of spinning a more unpalatable truth:
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Apocalypse Porn
- Digital images of future disaster are a crude distraction from the promise of renewal. A flood of films is presently swamping the cinema with nightmarish visions of a dystopian future.
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