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Postmodernism Editor, I appreciated Marcus Honeysett’s article ‘Christians in a postmodern world’ in April’s Nucleus (pp26-32). However I was uneasy at the way it came across as overwhelmingly negative about my culture. A closer look at the relationship between the gospel and culture might help. Lesslie Newbigin points out that the...
Culture is unavoidable. It is the air we breathe. Whether it is wholesome or toxic we cannot avoid culture and we cannot avoid making some level of judgment about what is valuable in culture. This is often at an unconscious level, by deciding where we go, what we watch, or...
Someone whose faith is not grounded in reason is like a stream of water that can be led anywhere.[1] Christianity claims to be the story of God's broken relationship with his creation and its subsequent healing. If it is true at all, it remains equally true for anyone, in any...
I can claim little more than an amateur's interest in the contemporary shifts in culture that surround us as we enter the twenty first century. Having spent twenty years in Inner-City General Practice and sixteen of those involved in education and training, however, I do feel able to comment on...