Engaging the Culture, Changing the World

Category Archives: Transformation

Leisure as a Foundational Principle?

June 13, 2011

In a previous post I talked about how we have built a culture obsessed by work. Recognizing the historical American devotion to a strong work ethic …

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. …”

Lincoln Spoke for Two Minutes and Changed the World

October 19, 2009

Lincoln believed that good language could not only capture ideas, but it could communicate, motivate, clarify, encourage. Good language could move the nation toward understanding its own identity. Read more»

Where Does Joy Come From?

May 23, 2009

I was in Jackson, Mississippi recently, and as I sat waiting in a van outside John Perkins’ home, an afternoon rain pelted the windshield steadily. On the plane to Jackson, I had been rereading John’s amazing autobiography, Let Justice Roll Down. Read more»