CultureChristianity & Culture

Exiles Again

| 20 min read

Last month Jacob Birch wrote a widely-viewed article at Christianity Today questioning the common use of Jeremiah 29 in the Western church.  In short, Birch complains that the common refrain, “We live in a period of exile” in today’s Western church is an ill-advised framework to understand the church’s relationship to our broader culture. We...

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CultureChristianity & Culture

Ethics for Exile

| 17 min read

Christianity has always – like any global movement – had different flavors.  Those flavors are often thought of as denominations, but denominations themselves mask a range of variation in how we express our Christianity – cultural variation, theological variation, and almost any other “-al variation” out there.  At a time when one flavor of Christianity...

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