Coloring the Psalms: Seeing God’s Patterns in Our Lives. By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, illustrated by James Newman Gray. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2016. 72 pages. $15. In the spirit of the psalms, which do not carry strict prescription for…
Have you heard of the Maker Movement? I recently picked up a book titled The Maker Movement Manifesto (McGraw Hill, 2014). In this book, Mark Hatch, CEO of TechShop, argues that a Robin Hood-like revolution is underway in the…
What if we hold to a theology that understands being a Christian as being united with Christ and that, as such, God is able to reveal himself through us? Does such a thought excite or frighten? Or, would you just rather wave the whole thing away?
“The first stage of the economy’s domination of social life brought about an evident degradation of being into having – human fulfillment was no longer equated with what one was, but with what one possessed. The present stage, in which…
I have an imaginary friend – you haven’t met her, I don’t think, but she’s a blend of artists I know and you may have met some of them. She’s called Dave (weird, I know) and she’s a musician (in…
INT: Home Office Lukas sits at his desk in front of a computer. He just received an audition for a popular crime drama. He is reading the sides, the scene pulled from the script for the audition, that his manager…
Some Christians say that if Jesus were here today, he would use films as he used stories. At first glance, this sounds perfect. However, this perspective is flawed, especially when films are used as contemporary tracts for Christian evangelism. One of…
The last few years have seen an explosion of Christians trying to engage with culture, to enjoy it, understand it and work out how to respond to it. The term ‘worldview’ has never been more used that in the last…
As a child of a particular strand of American Protestantism, I was warned from an early age to be weary of this world and its offerings. “All that glitters is not gold”. Essentially, there were a great many “beautiful” things…