Tag: Faith and Culture

Does Santa Claus innoculate children from religion? Can the cultural myth and the Gospel message co-exist in a way that makes sense?

He knew that joy flowed from honesty, rather than around it—sound familiar? In a similar way, Christians, whose identity is found apart from our ever-changing and often hopeless abilities and attributes, are free to laugh at ourselves. This is part and parcel of Christian joy.

UPDATED Reuters has posted reflections on the Interfaith Occupy Wall Street service in Zuccotti Park, written by Katherine Clark:

At the revival about to open at the Circle in the Square, the voices are better, and the dancing more choreographed. But it feels an awful lot like church

There is an explosion in religiously-oriented apps. The New Yorker says that scripture and religious apps are downloaded more often than Angry Birds.

How do horror stories speak to us spiritually?

A photo of a poster in the window at Nordstrom. Thanks Nordstrom for hopefully starting a new trend. What do you think about “decking the

Before Hitler, people used a variety of local and biblical images as shorthand in their discussions of evil.

Those of us at Episcopal Cafe were among the many to react to the news that Steve Jobs died last night. We included the heartfelt

Carol Howard Merritt notes five changes in our culture that every congregation should pay attention to.