creative tension

When the beginning began, the canvas of the earth was formless: blank and silent. The Creator, lavish in imagination, steps to the threshold. Full Story »

In 1951, Richard Niebuhr published Christ and Culture, a now-classic exposition of five ways Christians approach culture. The “Christ against culture” model sees no redemptive value in the secular world and advocates strict separation for believers. The “Christ of culture” approach, by contrast, tends to accommodate faith positions to prevailing norms. Full Story »