Tag: American Culture

• The 10 Commandments in American Culture

  While reading through The Art of Pastoring: Ministry Without All the Answers, by David Hansen, (a book recently recommended to me that I find myself wishing I had read years ago,) I came across this convicting assessment of American culture – an indictment that sadly is also widely applicable to a wide swath of American…

  Dennis Griffith

  October 28, 2022

  Cultural Issues, Graffiti

  10 Commandments, American Christianity, American Church, American Culture, American Evangelicalism, American Religion, American Values

• Wings

  This video, shared with me by my colleague Camper Mundy, reflects a sad commentary about the shallow consumerism of our society.

  Dennis Griffith

  January 18, 2014

  Cultural Issues

  American Culture, Consumerism, Wings video

• Advancing Progressively Backwards

  T.S. Eliot penned a penetrating poetic analysis of our cultural plight: It seems that something has happened that  has never happened before:  though we know not when,  or why,  or how,  or where. Men have left God not for other gods, they say,  but for no gods; and this has never happened before that men both deny gods…

  Dennis Griffith

  November 29, 2012

  Cultural Issues

  American Culture, Choruses From the Rock, Cultural Exegesis, Culture Wars, Poetry, T.S. Eliot

• 5 Causes of the Decline of the American Church

  Previewing Ross Douthat’s new book, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics,  which hit bookstore shelves yesterday, Tim Keller draws five observations about the causes of decline in the American Church. As Keller notes: In his second chapter, Douthat attributes the change to five major social catalysts that have gained steam since the…

  Dennis Griffith

  April 18, 2012

  Missional, North American Mission & Ministries

  American Culture, Decline of American Church, Missional, Religion in America, Ross Douthat, Tim Keller