Archive for the 'Worldview' Category
Deputy Attorney General Supportive of Porn
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson February 13th, 2009 on Creation ProjectPresident Barack Obama has nominated David Ogden as Deputy Attorney General of the United States. This nomination is both ominous and dangerous. Given David Ogden’s high visibility in defense of pornography, this nomination sends a clear and unmistakable message. The pornography business will have a friend in high office in the Department of Justice.
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Ken Myers: After Evangelism
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson February 5th, 2009 on Creation ProjectKen Myers of Mars Hill Audio will be speaking on: After Evangelism: Discipleship and the Cultural Life of Churches at Gordon-Conwell’s campus in South Hamilton, Massachusetts on Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Wish I could attend. Myers is as robust cultural critic and apologist. His thoughtful Mars Hill Audio program turns out volume after volume of […]
Atheist Applauds Christian Work in Africa
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson January 13th, 2009 on Creation ProjectNow a confirmed atheist, I’ve become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people’s hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The […]
Project on Lived Theology
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson December 10th, 2008 on Creation ProjectAt Virginia University there is a Project on Lived Theology that aims to reflect theologically on the practices of everyday life. The website says: “It is our conviction that the patterns and practices of religious communities offer rich and generative material for theological inquiry. These patterns and practices are not just ways of “doing things” […]
Newsweek, Gay Marriage, & the Bible
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson December 9th, 2008 on Creation ProjectIf you haven’t heard of the uproar of the passage of Proposition 8 in California by now, here’s your chance to engage in a lively, current and intriguing cultural issue. The debate over the validity of gay marriage and gay rights isn’t new. What is new is a major periodical taking a side in the […]
This is the first conversation between Matt Jensen, self-proclaimed Evangelical Christian and director of college mission of Mars Hill Church, and Michael Amini, former Mormon and current Atheist and the President of the Secular Student Union at the University of Washington. There are four more videos, which I will post successively. These videos are very […]
My first thoughts walking away from Dark Knight were dark thoughts. This film was, at times, too believable for a comic book hero. Yes, I realize that Nolan and the writers intentionally recast Batman out of the traditional hero role; however, in doing so they changed the comic book appeal, lost the frivolity and unbelievability […]
Dan Merchant, author of Lord, Save Us from Your Followers, has sought to collapse ideological division in the U.S. by wearing a jumpsuit covered with aphoristic bumper stickers and traveling the country to capture public response. He intentionally selected conflicting bumper stickers in order to stimulate discussion about these important issues—issues of love, truth, justice, […]
A couple months ago I posted on new urbanism, mentioning a book by Philip Bess called Till We Have Built Jerusalem. New urbanism is “an American urban design movement that arose in the early 1980s intended to reform all aspects of real estate development and urban planning, from urban retrofits to suburban infill. New […]
Those familiar with the theological debates regarding Christ and Culture will, no doubt, be familiar with Richard Niebuhr’s classic work Christ and Culture. Largely developed through reflection on historical patterns of and postures toward cultural engagement, Christ and Culture offered an insightful synthesis as well as a new typology. Niebuhr constructed a five-fold approach to […]