Ken Myers cares about culture. That stewardship, that intention to be concerned about and think about and nurture healthy cultural forms differs from those who merely want to manipulate culture as way to aggrandize their empires. Ken Myers caring about culture helps me to care about culture and resist some of the folly of our time. I hope to resist more.Read more

Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King is one I’m in the middle of now. I’m loving it. I want to get  Michaelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling next (also by King).Read more

First, John Herrington, who heads up Hill Country Bible's church planting initiative, writes a post about pastors that he has met in various US cities who are seeing the Lord work in their churches to reach people. One of the pastors he mentions is an old friend of mine, West Brazelton, who started Grace Bible Church in Houston.Read more

After his wife died, Richard Baxter wrote a brief account of her life. A summary of these events and excerpts of this writing are found in J. I. Packer's A Grief Sanctified: Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope (Crossway, 2002). I think it is safe to say that Baxter, well known for his work on ministry, The Reformed Pastor, as well as his reflections on heaven, The Saints' Everlasting Rest, is not so well known for his marriage. And yet, it is a sweet, sweet story.

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Preface: We don't do politics at CGO so this is a difficult needle to thread. My interest in posting this article from the Washington Post is NOT the political angle, even though the article is about a new Christian Right organization. My interest in posting this is for CGO readers to read the comments of the Washington Post readers. Many, many of the reader comments are about politics.

Christian Right Revival?

But some of the coments are about Christians, some about Jesus. Personally, I found it instructive to read the negative accusations against us. Read more

I've written a few times on this blog about how Christians deal with sports in our cRead more

At Glenn’s recommendation, I recently read a helpful book entitled Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different by Tullian Tchividjian (pronounced cha-vi-jin). It’s a good book, and I’m glad I read it.  Tchividjian describes the Church’s mission as extending Christ’s Kingdom in our culture by living as an unfashionable community. To be clear, the author doesn’t use the word “unfashionable” in the sense of dressing funny. Rather, as I understand it, the term “unfashionable” refers to our standards and priorities. For instance, Christians should prioritize service over selfish ambition. I won’t belabor the details of the book because Glenn’s already reviewed it on this website. I just wanted to set the context for a question that this book prompted me to ask.