Archive for the ‘American Christianity’ Category

Posted on April 23, 2012 - by Stephen Murray

Web Crawling

There’s been a fair bit of back and forth on the web about Ross Douthat’s Bad Religion: How we became a nation of heretics. Tim Keller gives some detailed interaction with the book here and here. Although the book is obviously American in its orientation it does seem to make significant points about the decline of Christianity in the broader Western or Western-influenced culture. Discussion on its applicability to South African Christianity would be interesting.

The passing of Chuck Colson has been all over a bunch of different sites. There have been some amazing testimonies and tributes to what clearly appears to having been an amazing life. There have also been some fairly poor postmortem assessments of his life. I thought this one from the Daily Maverick was particularly bad. I’ll be honest, I’ve been rather disappointed by the unbalanced stream of reporting on religion or faith-based issues that has come from the Daily Maverick recently.

Neil Powell has a great summary of a talk that Tim Keller recently gave on the 5 things that keep his ministry strong. A very good reminder.

I enjoyed these thoughts by Daniel Kirk on how abstinence is being (wrongly) pitched in contemporary evangelicalism.