What this Blog is all about
Here’s what this blog is all about. For a long time, a lot of Christians, myself included have been feeling somewhat alienated from the traditional church. This is not because the traditional church is neccessarily wrong (because on most things they aren’t) or evil or something (because they aren’t). No, its because sometimes when I read the Bible, I get a glimpse of something which shows the size and breadth of the Kingdom of God, and then I look at some of our churches and our gospel is really small.
This is compounded for me because I work with Christian university students and they are often struggling with a faith that is bigger than their churches, and they feel like they are heretics. So, in the course of my work with these students I’ve tried to assist them in navigating how they feel and plug them into good resources to work through their feelings and try and gain insight into the Word.
I am convinced that a large part of what I am seeing is related to a paradigm shift between generations from modernism to post-modernism. Modernity, or post-modernity, is a part of culture. Its how we think, organize ideas, what we put primacy on above other things. Culture in itself is not evil. However, to hear a lot of good Christians talk about ‘post-modernism’, they cast it as evil, a corruption, usually equating it with ethical relativism (while ethical relativism is prevalent amongst many post-moderns it is not in any way comparable to post-modernity). I would argue this is because Christianity and modernity have become so intertwined that we cannot separate the gospel from that facet of our culture anymore.
I hope to use this space as both a personal ruminate on these issues, but also to challenge others to think about them as well.
*next up: What is modernity, and what’s not good about it*