A Response to Kevin DeYoung’s Culture War Strategy
This article originally appeared on June 20, 2020 on Medium. I’m sound asleep when suddenly I get jolted awake by my screaming four year old son. Bleary eyed, I try to get a grip on my surroundings as I role out of bed, pull up some shorts, and put on a shirt. My four year […]
The Jesus-Formed, Embodied Worship of a Black Holiness Church (1895-1913)
This article originally appeared on June 12, 2020 on Medium. It was a paper that I submitted for a class at Northern Seminary. Having spent my entire life in overwhelmingly white churches, it wasn’t until I had reached my twenties that I started to become aware of the water I was swimming in. I had […]
How Modern Science Evolves Our Theology of Church and Culture
This article originally appeared on June 8, 2020 at Medium. It was a paper that I submitted for a class at Northern Seminary. In our previous article, we looked at how the Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, and Anabaptist traditions have seen the relationship between church and culture. Each of these traditions were rooted in an origin story […]
Four Views of Church and Culture
This article originally appeared on June 7, 2020 on Medium. It was a paper that I submitted for a class at Northern Seminary. Bob Dylan once said that popular culture “was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk on it.” His lyrics […]