Engaging the Culture, Changing the World

Category Archives: Gospel

Engaging the Culture in a World Out of Whack

July 11, 2011

I have always felt that Christians must stay tuned quite intensely to what’s going on in the world. This is part of what we call our signature commitments at Seattle Pacific.

Putting Out Into the Deep

November 29, 2010

On the plane late last night … I became intensely absorbed in George Weigel’s brand-new book The End and the Beginning. … And somehow my reflections on what is happening in our nation’s capital seemed to come together with new thoughts about the life and leadership and teaching of Pope John Paul II.

A Way of Being Human We Never Imagined Before

October 25, 2010

In his latest book titled After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters, the great N.T. Wright says that what the disciples discovered in Jesus was “a way of being human which nobody had ever imagined before. …”

Broken People and the Problem of Community

July 26, 2010

This is the season for the long evenings in our northern part of the world, and finally we are getting a taste of summer. I decided to go for a walk in downtown Seattle. … Quite a joyous scene, a feeling of genuine community. But I noticed in the midst of it all there were the broken people.