culture
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“The reversal: Immigration from the West to the Global South”
“Face to face vs. e-contact”
Get ready: “Hello mothers, hello father”
“Morality of voting”
The Economist:
It is immoral to act on a maxim that we cannot imagine everyone else acting on.
“The Global Mexican”
“America needs to rethink its immigration policy”
“Honk if you had an affair with Taylor”
“Gospel, culture, and mission: an interview with Tim Keller”
[In ministry,] a balance must be struck between pessimistic passivity and the frantic assumption that you can create it.
“A Guy Who Saw Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956 That Is Now on YouTube.”
Crazy.
“Real-Talk Answers to the Presidential Debate Questions”
via @TheAtlantic
“Another step closer to real-life Wall-E”
Doesn’t comprehending “insert the metal fitting into the buckle” preclude anyone who has no familiarity with a seatbelt?
“Competitiveness: The wealth of nations”
Most cogent definition of contextualization I’ve read to date
Timothy Keller:
Contextualization is not — as is often argued — “giving people what they want to hear.”4 Rather, it is giving people the Bible’s answers, which they may not at all want to hear, to questions about life that people in their particular time and place are asking, in language and forms they can comprehend, and through appeals and arguments with force they can feel, even if they reject them. Sound contextualization means translating and adapting the communication and ministry of the gospel to a particular culture without compromising the essence and particulars of the gospel itself.