Episode Details

Did you grow up in “cultural Christianity”? Do you think this background helped you love Jesus more, or drove you away from him? What would your neighbors think? As people debate whether we even live in a Christian culture, how do these public moral tropes and gospel reflections influence our stories, Christian-made or otherwise?

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1. What do we mean by ‘cultural Christianity’?

2. How does cultural Christianity hurt our stories?

3. How can cultural Christianity help our stories?

Quotes and notes

• What is Cultural Christianity?, GotQuestions.org
• In Praise of Cultural Christianity, Mere Orthodoxy
• Pop Culture Gets Religion, Christianity Today
• Positive, Negative, and Neutral World, First Things

Com station

Jo Ann Dagis Samide enjoys “dangerous books” in right ways:

Reading this thread made me feel so nostalgic. I loved reading to and with my five kids when we homeschooled. We used sonlight curriculum which had a great deal of fabulous reading choices. My youngest is 20 and my oldest is 35, and they all talk about the days of reading aloud and what we learned….

Keep it up, folks, you are truly doing the Lord’s work!

R. M. Archer commented on Twitter about A. D. Sheehan’s article:

Though this topic is nothing new to me, I personally found this @Lorehaven article timely to share given my very recent disappointment with the Dungeons & Dragons movie and with the season 2