We live in a time when there are many competing voices attempting to encourage Christians to respond to the world in many different and often conflicting ways. This has created a fractured world and a fractured church. We hope that our content this month has provided some hope that by
Many Christians today feel the weight of increased cultural hostility toward their most valued convictions and wonder how to respond. As Stephen Presley notes in his book, Cultural Sanctification, they’re often tempted to move in one of two opposite, extreme directions. On one side is some version of quietism. This is
“If we could just get back to doing it like the early church,” or some similar phrase, has been uttered by many Christians who desire not only a deeper connection with Jesus but also forms of Christian life that are more faithful to God in proclamation and practice. While this
In his famous work, The Idea of a Christian Society, T.S. Eliot characterizes the secular turn of the 20th century as a version of “modern paganism.” Many others have pick up this thesis and made similar comparisons. In my new book, Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World like the early church, I explain
