Engaging the Culture, Changing the World

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Our Leaders Are on Vacation?

August 22, 2011

“The world is falling apart, and our leaders are on vacation,” a friend of mine said with disgust and frustration. Financial and economic indicators plunged precipitously that day, and we were searching for answers. Where have all the leaders gone, we asked.

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Is Our Culture Going to Make It?

July 25, 2011

So many people lament these days about something missing in our culture, something lost, something perhaps never to be retrieved. We seem to be wandering around a bit bewildered.

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Signs of Fatigue in the Culture

July 21, 2011

When recently asked what he was reading, Mick Jagger said he had just picked up Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel Freedom: “It’s not really my kind of thing,” Jagger said, “but everyone was talking about it so I thought I’d have a look.”

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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.