Here are a few excerpts from an interview with Eugene Peterson. You make spirituality sound so mundane. I don’t want to suggest that those of us who are following Jesus don’t have any fun, that there’s no joy, no exuberance, no ecstasy. They’re just not what the consumer thinks they are. When we advertise the […]

The following is a portion of what turned out to be a rather lengthy reply to my good buddy Sam in a comment from a previous post. Sam?well said. I agree with everything you?ve written. You?ve done an excellent job of describing the gospel from the perspective of what God provides individuals through the gospel. […]

Here’s a great question from Marva Dawn: If television is causing people to be dissatisfied with the worship of our churches, should we change worship to be more like television–or should the splendor of our worship cause people to ask better questions about television? Should our consumer-driven culture be forcing us to rethink how we […]

From Affluenza: In 1986, America still had more high schools than shopping centers. Less than fifteen years later, we have more than twice as many shopping centers as high schools. In the age of Affluenza, shopping centers have supplanted churches as a symbol of cultural values. In fact, seventy percent of us visit malls each […]