Apprentice 2 Jesus

Culture

  • Incarnation — the work of God in a weary world

    I remember hearing the story of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the writing of his poem, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”. I was reminded of it again as I read an article by Kristen O’Neal on the subject of the poem. The entire article is well worth your time to read. These last few… Read more

  • Colliding worldviews

    I have finally taken to podcasts. (Which should signal to everyone that podcasts will now NOT be a great medium of communication.) Read more

  • Our true fear

    Our true fear as culturalized Christians is we like power and provision. We’re doing well. We’re in the spheres of influence. To give that up willingly is an abhorrent thought. Read more

  • I don’t want to forget

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  • The road to Babylon

    The past couple of weeks have been contemplative for me because of issues I’ve reflected on in the last few posts. This morning I woke up with the same thoughts. They were slightly different, but when I go back and read my last few posts, especially the longer one I linked to on the Daniel… Read more

  • The depths of culturalized Christianity

    John Fea calls them “court evangelicals.” I want to go a bit further and use the term: “culturalized Christians.” It’s not a good term, but I start there.  Read more

  • The worship demanded by the gods of this age

    Our rigid ideologies may be couched in “sacred” terms at times, but we need to understand the liturgy of our culture. From the “right” to the “left” we are in liturgies to the different gods of our age. The demands are stringent. But to the “right” or the “left”, what is being sacrificed is the… Read more

  • The fallacy of “success”

    “The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else’s imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!” —… Read more

  • The Great Divorce of the Western Evangelical Church

    Pope Francis has come out with an apostolic exhortation that is well worth the read. There is something for everyone to be mad at in this writing, as I have found in the writings of Benedict before him, and John Paul before him.  Read more

  • We would like to think our problems are unique… they are not

    Consider this quote of angst by an 18-year-old:  Read more