Backward Mutters

Category: Christ and Culture

  • Are You Hip?

    Article in the Wall Street Journal by Brett McCracken earlier this week on hipster Christianity here. He concludes, “If the evangelical Christian leadership thinks that “cool Christianity” is a sustainable path forward, they are severely mistaken. As a twentysomething, I can say with confidence that when it comes to church,…

  • The Real Power

    “Haven’t you been told that it’s strictly non-political?” “I’ve been told so many things that I don’t know whether I’m on my head or my heels,” said Mark. “But I don’t see how one’s going to start a newspaper stunt (which is about what this comes to) without being political.…

  • Tim Keller on Demythologizing the Culture from GC 10

    http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5834236&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Tim Keller Session 1 from The Gospel Coalition on Vimeo.

  • Cataracts of Nonsense

    In his sermon, “Learning in Wartime“, C.S. Lewis said the following: Most of all, perhaps we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us…

  • Don’t Stop Believin’

    Fox has put the muscle of social media behind the premiere of Glee‘s first episode which airs Wednesday, September 9. After watching the pilot, I was surprised at the enduring questions and/or propositions that were posited in that pilot about the nature of things: the good, the true, and the…