Essay: Don’t believe in systemic racism? Let’s talk about the sexual revolution.
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article first published on Religion News Service, on how systemic racism operates in a similar way to the sexual revolution that started in the 1960s…
Wow!: Entrepreneurs turn rusting Soviet plant into green urban space in western Ukraine
SERGIY KARAZY and MARGARYTA CHORNOKONDRATENKO, of Reuters, report from Ukraine…
ESSAY: CAN SOMEONE BY A HINDU BE CULTURE AND A CHRISTIAN BY FAITH AT THE SAME TIME?
The Most Rev JOSEPH D’SOUZA, founder of Dignity Freedom Network, Archbishop of the Anglican Good Shepherd Church of India and president of the All India Christian Council, looks at the intersection of Christianity and culture…
THE INTERVIEW: DAVID ZAHL, AUTHOR OF ‘SECULOSITY’
AYSHA KHAN, of Religion News Service, speaks to David Zahl, author of ‘Seculosity’, about how he believes, in contrast to the view that US society is becoming more secular, it’s actually becoming more religious about more things…
Missing ingredient in healing cities after disaster? Culture
Thomson Reuters Foundation In Bosnia, after the war in the 1990s, residents put rebuilding a 400-year-old bridge ahead of fixing their own roofs. In Nepal, repairing the nation’s historic sites brought people together after 2015’s devastating earthquakes. Those are critical lessons, according to a report released on Monday by the World Bank and the United […]
SIGHT-SEEING: THE REASONS WHY CHRISTIANS HAVE LOST CREDIBILITY IN TODAY’S CULTURE
In an article first published on ASSIST News Service, PHIL COOKE and JONATHAN BOCK, authors of ‘The Way Back: How Christians Blew Our Credibility and How We Get It Back’, look at eight ways Christians can start to change culture…
ESSAY: HOW CALIFORNIA’S MEGA-CHURCHES CHANGED CHRISTIAN CULTURE
In an article first published on The Conversation, US academic RICHARD FLORY looks at how California’s mega-churches have influenced Christian culture, both elsewhere in the US but also around the world…
WHO DEFINES CULTURE?
When you boil it down, the current marriage debate is about two things: cultural normalisation – what we consider normal in our culture, and, who gets to define it. WHO DEFINES CULTURE?: Paul Clark says faith groups have a role in defining culture but must “win people’s hearts and minds through compassionate good deeds”. […]