Though this article could have been developed more biblically, it is really an attempt to apply an ancient Jewish command to our modern Christian context.
Boundless liked it. I hope you do too.
Catching Pop Culture in a Mousetrap
A link to Austin’s pop, folk, and high culture happenings. Stream a variety of music and local bands like All Hail and Pompeii for free!
Seeing Through Cyncism (Part I): Social Darwinism
A couple of weeks ago I finished reading this book. I am still ruminating. Keyes’ work is a creative, thoughtful and, at times, penetrating examination of an all too often unchecked, unhappy virtue of our post-modern, post-Truth age. Through a sustained, cogently argued thesis, Keyes addresses our modern cynicism philosophically, culturally, biblically, and most of all experientially.
More than once, I was brought to repentance and awe before our transcendent and terrestrial Christ as I was presented with the biblical alternative to cynicism–“redemptive suspicion, limited by humility and tempered by love and mercy.” Not all books affect all people the same way. For some Seeing Through Cyncism may not have this power. Yet, at the very least, Dick Keyes of L’Abri fame will pique your interest and equip you to redemptively engage cynicism in Seeing Through Cyncism:A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion.
Spiritual Exercise
“Spiritual exercise is like jogging. You often do it gladly. But you are no hypocrite if you jog even when you don’t feel like it.”
Neal Plantinga, “The Shape of A Godly Life” in Beyond Doubt, 263.