Category Archives: Culture

Discipleship Goals #2

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

It’s easy to center the act of disciple making on what we do with individuals. But if all we do in our disciple making is work with individuals, we’re missing both the model of Jesus and what we see in … Continue reading →

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A Difference

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

One of the books I’m reading now is John Stackhouse’s Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World. He quotes David Martin as saying, “If I wanted to dramatize it I would point out that Mohammed was … Continue reading →

Posted in Clash of Civilizations, Culture, Islam | 3 Comments

Cafeteria Religion

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

Barna has come out with another survey, showing that Americans are more prone than ever to just make up their own religion. Ed Stetzer also comments on it. Here’s my preliminary thoughts. Our culture has divided so much between “liberal” … Continue reading →

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Getting What We Wanted?

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Some of us have been preaching against consumerism for ages – some vehemently and constantly, some merely occasionally. Looking at the current US economy it appears that maybe someone was listening. What’s wrong with consumerism? When we’re captivated by consumerism, … Continue reading →

Posted in Consumerism, Culture, Economics | 3 Comments

Small Town Living

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

I just ran across this Chesterton quote at Alexander Pruss’s blog: Chesterton says, “It is not fashionable to say much nowadays of the advantages of the small community. We are told that we must go in for large empires and … Continue reading →

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Help on Patriotism

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

I’m working on a message about Jeremiah’s patriotism. I’d love your input on my theses thus far: Though the events of the bible took place in cultures very different from our own, we can still learn from them how we, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible, Culture, Politics | 5 Comments

Homeless Christians?

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

My brother’s been blogging lately about the nexus between living as Christians and living in “our” broader culture. The brings to mind what Tony Jones wrote about the “Hauerwasian Mafia” a while back. Here are some of my (brief) thoughts … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Politics | 8 Comments

How Many Allegiances?

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Greg Boyd blogs about participating in a recent debate with Shane Claiborne and Chuck Colson on the issue of Christianity and Government. Since Greg doesn’t allow comments at his site, I’ll post some comments here. He reports: Chuck believes Christians … Continue reading →

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Handling our Wealth

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Here are some comments inspired by John the Methodist and commentators at his site: It’s been said, “Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today.  Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Consumerism, Culture, Economics | 3 Comments

Overcoming Incommensurability

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Christian Amondson has an interesting post on issues of incommensurability, i.e., how communication can happen across narratival boundaries. Here’s my comment: Do we want to say that the incommensurability between the Christian world/narrative is essentially different from the incommensurability that … Continue reading →

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