Gerardo Marti: A Super Bowl commercial contest and Christian creativity
Some see it as crash commercialism. Others as a chance to be gospel salt-and-light in the world.
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Sven Birkerts: Literary culture in the electronic age
Google vs Gutenberg. Author Sven Birkerts asks: What is lost in the rush to embrace digital culture?
Richard J. Mouw: For a civil parking lot
Aristotle was right. The city is where we learn to flourish in our humanness. So how come today we're so rude to strangers that a simple act of kindness can undo us?
Andy Crouch: Christians, culture and power
Christians don’t like to talk about power. But cultural power -- the ability to create -- is something all people are meant to have, says writer Andy Crouch, author of "Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power."
Michael Jinkins: The secular is not the enemy
In the search for a new enemy, religious leaders may rally in opposition to "the secular." But that's a trap. Not to mention a theological mistake.
Michael Jinkins: Reasons for hope in a "culture of disbelief"
Is all faith just projection of our "needs" on the cosmos? Or is our longing for something greater than ourselves a sign of truth?
Seizing the moment
AME founder Richard Allen saw in the 1793 yellow fever epidemic an opportunity to help his fellow citizens and to advocate for equality, writes Rochester Institute of Technology history professor Richard Newman.
Mark Chaves: Changing religious affiliations
Fewer Christians, more "nones"; what does it mean?
Michael Jinkins: Down with slogans!
"Experts" are wrong as often as everyone else. So should we not drop simplistic ways of seeing the world?
Richard Mouw: Calvinism at the National Prayer Breakfast
What would John Calvin say about the interreligious engagement of the National Prayer Breakfast?