FAITH IN CULTURE
articles on the challenges and opportunities for faith in modern culture
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Why The Truth Is Out Of fashion
- The fashion for believing irreconcilable truths is taking its toll, making us prey to the most powerful, insistent or shameless. What should we make of the whole notion of post-truth politics today?
The Silence Of The Crowds
- What do we make of the growing trend for a minute’s silence to mark public trauma? A week after the awful atrocity visited on British tourists to Tunisia in the summer of 2015, the nation held a minute’s silence in honour of the victims
When Hope And History Don't Rhyme
- We should let the darkness of the world into the Nativity story and the light of Christ into our hearts. They both have their place in the world God has come to rescue, but not yet rescued.
Are We Different People On The Internet?
- Those who commit murder assume a power which does not belong to them; only one has authority over death, whose rule lies in its defeat. Rapid economic changes always re-shape the societies they emerge from.
FAITH AS PROTEST
- The tradition of lively and volatile encounter with God over life’s injustices is weak in modern Christianity and our preference for abstract philosophical questions is not fostering personal faith
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When Sport And religion Don't Mix
- Being a sports fan probably doesn't help you in your faith in God. Here's why…May is the month of tension, where sports fans obsess over the winter season’s end. There are big finals and play-offs, bringing to a dramatic ...
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The Advice Culture
- The self-help industry is booming, but its overall message is surprisingly reactionary and lacks the transformative power of grace.
The Unfashionable Virtue Of Delay
- To hesitate is considered a sign of weakness today, but conscious waiting often allows for our real frailty, and God’s will, to be shown
The Vision Thing
- The shibboleths of liberalism and capitalism between them constrain politicians from saying much that is interesting, let alone visionary
HARD DAY’S NIGHT
- The Church is both the beneficiary and the victim of the long hours working culture. Its reluctance to conduct a spiritual audit of this may in the longer run make it more of a victim.
THE GOD OF RWANDA
- How did belief in God change for those caught up in the Rwandan genocide? ‘Since there was Auschwitz, God cannot exist.’
NOUS SOMMES TOUS FRANCAIS
- The French face acute challenges in both integrating their Muslim population and understanding the faith that others profess. They are not alone in this.