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Articles on Culture
- “Churches” or “Christians” and Culture? Scott Aniol
- “Relevance” David de Bruyn
- "Indigenous" vs "European" Music in 19th Century America Scott Aniol
- 2008 Mid-America Conference on Preaching, Conclusion Scott Aniol
- 2008 Mid-America Conference on Preaching, Part 4 Scott Aniol
- 2008 Mid-America Conference on Preaching, Part 5 Scott Aniol
- 2008 Mid-America Conference on Preaching, Part 6 Scott Aniol
- 2008 Mid-America Conference on Preaching, Part 8 Scott Aniol
- A Brazilian tribesman talks about culture, worship, and the gospel Scott Aniol
- A Catechism on Judgment in Worship David de Bruyn
- A Christian Imagination David de Bruyn
- A Distinctly Christian Culture Scott Aniol
- A Humble Request and Prolegomena Ryan Martin
- A New Testament Understanding of Culture Scott Aniol
- A People in Exile Scott Aniol
- A syllogism on the morality of culture Scott Aniol
- A Tale of Two Sons David de Bruyn
- A Tidbit on “Taste” Jason Parker
- A World of Meaning David de Bruyn
- Abraham Kuyper’s Approach to Culture Scott Aniol
- Acts 17 and cultural contextualization Scott Aniol
- Alan Hirsch on cultural distance Scott Aniol
- All Things to All Men Kevin T. Bauder
- All Things to All Men | Part 2: Interpretative Principles Ryan Martin
- All Things to All Men | Part 3: What the Passage Means (vv19-20) Ryan Martin
- All Things to All Men | Part 4: What the Passage Means (vv21-22) Ryan Martin
- All Things to All Men | Part 5: What the Passage Means (vv22-23) Ryan Martin
- An Observation Today's Pastors Would Do Well To Hear Scott Aniol
- Are emotions universal? Scott Aniol
- Are Media ‘By Definition’ Morally Neutral? David de Bruyn
- Are NT “Behavior”-related Terms Equivalent to “Culture”? Scott Aniol
- Are NT “Race”-related Terms Equivalent to “Culture”? Scott Aniol
- Are NT “World”-related Terms Equivalent to “Culture”? Scott Aniol
- Article 11: On Popular Culture Scott Aniol
- Article 5: On the Appetites Ryan Martin
- Article 9: On Harmony and Variety in Ordinate Expression David de Bruyn
- As Real As I Feel David de Bruyn
- Authority – Its Origin David de Bruyn
- Authority and Authoritarianism David de Bruyn
- Authority, Soul Competence and Vocation David de Bruyn
- Be holy in all your culture Scott Aniol
- Beethoven-Only? Nie! David de Bruyn
- Bible movie reflections Scott Aniol
- Book Review: Prophetic untimeliness: A challenge to the idol of relevance Scott Aniol
- Borrowing culture Scott Aniol
- Can biblical principles about music be applied across cultures? Scott Aniol
- Cheap Thrills – Pop Art and Transcendence David de Bruyn
- Chestless Churches David de Bruyn
- Christian Approaches to Culture Scott Aniol
- Christian Cultural Literacy Scott Aniol
- Christian culture Scott Aniol
- Christian Culture in Church History David de Bruyn
- Christians and Critical Judgments David de Bruyn
- Christians and Culture Scott Aniol
- Christians are Redeemed from Unholy Culture Scott Aniol
- Christians, the Church, and Culture Scott Aniol
- Chronological Snobbery Christopher Ames
- Common Missional Definitions of Culture Scott Aniol
- Comparison of “Doubtful Things” in Romans and I Corinthians Scott Aniol
- Conservative Change Scott Aniol
- Conservative Christians will be committed to transmitting these worship forms to future generations Scott Aniol
- Contextualizing in Blaséburg David de Bruyn
- Contextualizing the Gospel – Full Series Scott Aniol
- Contextualizing the Gospel, Part 1 – Introduction Scott Aniol
- Contextualizing the Gospel, Part 2 – Defining Biblical Contextualization Scott Aniol
- Contextualizing the Gospel, Part 3 – The First Principles of the Gospel Scott Aniol
- Contextualizing the Gospel, Part 4 – Responsibility and Sovereignty in Evangelism Scott Aniol
- Contextualizing the Gospel, Part 5 – The Power of the Gospel Scott Aniol
- Corinth and Christmas: What ‘Food Offered to Idols’ Can Teach Us about Celebrating Christmas Jason Parker
- Corporate worship and the formation of a new culture Scott Aniol
- Corporate Worship is Formative Scott Aniol
- Correcting Categories, Part 1 – Biblical Authority Scott Aniol
- Correcting Categories, Part 10 – Conclusion Scott Aniol
- Correcting Categories, Part 2 – Emotional Metaphor Scott Aniol
- Correcting Categories, Part 3 – Music's Benefit Scott Aniol
- Correcting Categories, Part 4 – Dissecting Emotion Scott Aniol
- Correcting Categories, Part 5 – Biblical Anthroplogy Scott Aniol
- Correcting Categories, Part 6 – Dionysian vs. Apollonian Scott Aniol
- Correcting Categories, Part 7 – The Nature of Pop Scott Aniol
- Correcting Categories, Part 8 – Music and Emotion in the Church Scott Aniol
- Correcting Categories, Part 9 – the Church Today Scott Aniol
- Cultivated, Commercial, and Communal Music Scott Aniol
- Cultural skepticism, the opposite of worldliness Michael Riley
- Cultural superiority Scott Aniol
- Culture – More Than Creation David de Bruyn
- Culture and Cultivation of the Affections David de Bruyn
- Culture and ethnicity Scott Aniol
- Culture and Race Scott Aniol
- Culture and the Liturgies of Life Scott Aniol
- Culture and Tradition Scott Aniol
- Culture and Truth Michael Riley
- Culture doesn’t just change Scott Aniol
- Culture is human behavior Scott Aniol
- Culture, Not Race David de Bruyn
- Defining pop culture Scott Aniol
- Did Luther use tunes from love songs? Scott Aniol
- Differences and Universals in Music Across Cultures Scott Aniol
- Differences over philosophy of culture must always affect cooperation Scott Aniol
- Discernment and Good and Evil (Part 4) Ryan Martin
- Discernment as spiritual wisdom and understanding (Part 3) Ryan Martin
- Discussion about Christian rap with Shai Linne: Can Music Be Sinful? Scott Aniol
- Discussion about Christian rap with Shai Linne: Example of Sinful Music Scott Aniol
- Discussion about Christian rap with Shai Linne: Example of Sinful Music (Rebuttal) Scott Aniol
- Discussion about Christian rap with Shai Linne: How does rap “flavor” its truth content? Scott Aniol
- Discussion about Christian rap with Shai Linne: How does rap “flavor” its truth content? (Rebuttal) Scott Aniol
- Discussion about Christian rap with Shai Linne: Introduction Scott Aniol
- Discussion about Christian rap with Shai Linne: Roots Scott Aniol
- Distinguishing high culture from folk culture Scott Aniol
- Distinguishing High, Folk, and Pop Culture Scott Aniol
- Distorting the building blocks of worship Scott Aniol
- Does Christ Redeem Cultural Expressions? David de Bruyn
- Does contextualization heighten the likelihood of a positive response to the gospel? Scott Aniol
- Does Form Matter? Guest Author
- Does Revelation 5:9 prove that all kinds of cultural expressions will be in heaven? Scott Aniol
- Doorposts, Frontlets and the Affections David de Bruyn
- Doth not the mind often leave them before the Lord? Ryan Martin
- Dual Citizens Scott Aniol
- Edwards on Indians, Language, and Missions Ryan Martin
- Encouraging Reflectiveness David de Bruyn
- Equality and Distinctions David de Bruyn
- Equality is Medicine, Not Food David de Bruyn
- Exiles Scott Aniol
- Explanation of my comments about Reformed rap on the NCFIC panel Scott Aniol
- Facts about the Hobby Lobby ruling even some Christians seem to be missing Scott Aniol
- Fashion is arbitrary Ryan Martin
- Finding common ground in the missions debate Michael Riley
- For the Sake of Argument… David de Bruyn
- Form and Meaning David de Bruyn
- Formalists Under Fire David Oestreich
- Four Poets on Interacting with Tradition David Oestreich
- Free eBook of Back to Basics Series Scott Aniol
- Freedom David de Bruyn
- Freedom – Societal and Individual David de Bruyn
- Freedom and Churches David de Bruyn
- From Palestrina to Pino David de Bruyn
- Full "Correcting Categories" Series Administrator
- Future Union of the Two Kingdoms Scott Aniol
- God’s People in Exile Scott Aniol
- Gospel impact and the world’s approval Scott Aniol
- Habits Scott Aniol
- Hebrew worship and the surrounding culture Scott Aniol
- Herman Dooyeweerd’s Approach to Culture Scott Aniol
- Holy Values Ought to Affect Every Aspect of a Christian’s Culture Scott Aniol
- How Can We Conserve Biblical Worship? Full Series Scott Aniol
- How Can We Conserve Biblical Worship? Part 4 Scott Aniol
- How Christian Were the Middle Ages? Kevin T. Bauder
- Identifying Authorities David de Bruyn
- Imagination and Shaping the Affections David de Bruyn
- Intensely audience-conscious and market-driven Ryan Martin
- Irreverent and Culpable David de Bruyn
- Is “cultural transformation” part of a church’s mission? Scott Aniol
- Is culture the same as race? Scott Aniol
- Is Music a Separation Issue? Scott Aniol
- Is Rap Really a Canvas? David de Bruyn
- Is the secularization of Christmas anything new? Scott Aniol
- Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) David de Bruyn
- Jesus So Totally Rocks David de Bruyn
- John Calvin’s Approach to Culture Scott Aniol
- Judging Matters of Freedom David de Bruyn
- Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi Scott Aniol
- Love for Christ & Scripture-Regulated Worship 6: Love for Christ and New Testament Authority Ryan Martin
- Make Disciples Scott Aniol
- Martin Luther’s Approach to Culture Scott Aniol
- Matters of Conscience and Freedom David de Bruyn
- Mere Recognition David de Bruyn
- Mind Your Manners: Rude to God David de Bruyn
- Missionaries and Culture David de Bruyn
- Missions and Music Scott Aniol
- Missions and the antithesis Michael Riley
- More on affirming culture Scott Aniol
- More on the Hymnal vs. Screen thing Ryan Martin
- More than Cognitive David de Bruyn
- More thoughts the use of movie clips in services (and the RPW) Ryan Martin
- Multiculturalism and Contextualization David de Bruyn
- Multiculturalism and Cultural Prejudice David de Bruyn
- Multiculturalism and Judging Culture David de Bruyn
- Multiculturalism veiled as "Missional" Scott Aniol
- Multiculturalism: You Might Be Surprised David de Bruyn
- Music for Holy Week Ryan Martin
- Musical Universality, Ethnodoxology, and Associations Scott Aniol
- National Anthems and the Universal Language Scott Aniol
- New Creatures–New Culture Scott Aniol
- On Baby Grands and Expensive Hymnals David de Bruyn
- On racism, ethnicity, and culture Scott Aniol
- On the suggestion that ‘holy hip hop’ is the new Baroque Ryan Martin
- Pagan Culture and Apostate Culture David de Bruyn
- Panel discusses Reformed Rap Scott Aniol
- Pastors – Become Literate in Christian Culture David de Bruyn
- Paul and Cultural Critique: Titus 1:12-13 Chuck Bumgardner
- Paul the Cultural Conservative Ryan Martin
- Paul, Plato, and Calvin on Music Ryan Martin
- Practice Makes Perfect: Culture and the Liturgies of Life Scott Aniol
- Psalm 130 in the Hands of a Young Johann Sebastian (Part 5) Ryan Martin
- Reenactment Scott Aniol
- Reforming Influences in 19th Century American Church Music Scott Aniol
- Rehabilitating “Tolerance” David de Bruyn
- Relevance and Importance David de Bruyn
- Relevance and Intelligibility David de Bruyn
- Relevance and Notoriety David de Bruyn
- Relevance in the Eye of the Beholder David de Bruyn
- Relevance is Irrelevant (Conclusion) Ryan Martin
- Relevance is irrelevant (Part 10) Ryan Martin
- Relevance is Irrelevant (Part 11) Ryan Martin
- Relevance is Irrelevant (Part 12) Ryan Martin
- Relevance is Irrelevant (Part 13) Ryan Martin
- Relevance is irrelevant (Part 2) Ryan Martin
- Relevance is irrelevant (Part 3) Ryan Martin
- Relevance is irrelevant (Part 4) Ryan Martin
- Relevance is Irrelevant (Part 5) Ryan Martin
- Relevance is Irrelevant (Part 6) Ryan Martin
- Relevance is irrelevant (Part 7) Ryan Martin
- Relevance is Irrelevant (Part 8) Ryan Martin
- Relevance is irrelevant (Part 9) Ryan Martin
- Relevant or Current? David de Bruyn
- Renaissance and early Reformation Settings of Psalm 130 (Part 3) Ryan Martin
- Resident Aliens Scott Aniol
- Residents Scott Aniol
- Restraint Scott Aniol
- Scripturally, “Culture” is Simply the “Behavior” of a People Scott Aniol
- Should a missionary simply adopt a culture’s music when church planting? Scott Aniol
- Should differences over music philosophy hinder cooperation between Christians? Scott Aniol
- Should we use Western music when planting indigenous churches in other cultures? Scott Aniol
- Should western music be transplanted to missions church plants? Scott Aniol
- Sincerely Amused David de Bruyn
- Sincerity or Profanity – 2 David de Bruyn
- Sincerity or Profanity? David de Bruyn
- Some answers to questions about my views on Reformed rap Scott Aniol
- Stevens on Culture and Meaning David Oestreich
- Sweetly Destructive David de Bruyn
- T. David Gordon: “It’s like reaching the rich young ruler by throwing money at him.” Ryan Martin
- Ten Mangled Words – “Authentic” David de Bruyn
- Ten Mangled Words – “Authority” David de Bruyn
- Ten Mangled Words – “Culture” David de Bruyn
- Ten Mangled Words – “Equality” David de Bruyn
- The “Two Hands” of Ministry Scott Aniol
- The Bellamy Salute Kevin T. Bauder
- The Christendom Approach to Culture Scott Aniol
- The Christian and Meaning David de Bruyn
- The Christian and Nakedness in Art Chuck Bumgardner
- The Church and Christian Cultural Involvement Scott Aniol
- The Church, Christians, and Culture: Conclusion Scott Aniol
- The Colloquial, the Casual, and the Crafted David de Bruyn
- The Common Problem with White Supremacy and Multiculturalism Scott Aniol
- The Culture of Humanity Scott Aniol
- The evangelistic power of holy culture Scott Aniol
- The Form of the Liturgy Scott Aniol
- The Good and the Bad of Missional Worship Scott Aniol
- The Historical Context of Psalm 137 Scott Aniol
- The Historical Development of “Culture” Scott Aniol
- The importance of cultural discernment in Christian education Scott Aniol
- The importance of distinguishing between folk and pop culture Scott Aniol
- The Incarnational Mode of Missional Worship Scott Aniol
- The Incarnational Mode of the Missional Church Scott Aniol
- The Internet, Short Attention Spans, and Preaching Ryan Martin
- The Judeo-Christian Worship Tradition Scott Aniol
- The Lord is my . . . cattle-driver? Scott Aniol
- The Missional Approach to Culture Scott Aniol
- The Missional Church and Culture Scott Aniol
- The Missional Philosophy of Culture Scott Aniol
- The Missional Understanding of “Culture” Scott Aniol
- The Missionary Imperative of Missional Worship Scott Aniol
- The Mortification of Spin’s Take on Secular Music (or, Calvin vs. the Calvinists) Ryan Martin
- The New Testament Approach to Culture Scott Aniol
- The People’s Work Scott Aniol
- The Poetry of Richard Wilbur David Oestreich
- The Poetry of Ron Rash David Oestreich
- The Pre-Tridentine Roman Church Scott Aniol
- The Problem of Numbers David de Bruyn
- The Purpose of Music in Missions Scott Aniol
- The Radical Reformers’ Approach to Culture Scott Aniol
- The Redemptive Rule of God Scott Aniol
- The Relationship Between Holy Culture and Unholy Culture Should be One of Witness Scott Aniol
- The Rise and Fall of Christendom Scott Aniol
- The Sanctificationist Approach to Culture Scott Aniol
- The Separatist Approach to Culture Scott Aniol
- The State of Mission Today Scott Aniol
- The Strange Silence Around the Third Commandment David de Bruyn
- The superiority of folk culture to pop culture Scott Aniol
- The Transformationalist Approach to Culture Scott Aniol
- The Two Kingdoms and Immigration Policy Scott Aniol
- The Two-Kingdoms Approach to Culture Scott Aniol
- The Universal Common Kingdom Scott Aniol
- The Word of God alone Governs the Behavior of the Church Scott Aniol
- Theological Issues at Stake in Discussions of Culture and Contextualization Scott Aniol
- There hasn’t always been contemporary worship music Scott Aniol
- Three Cultural Streams in 19th-Century American Church Music Scott Aniol
- To harmonize the affections Ryan Martin
- tobyMac and the state of Evangelical piety Ryan Martin
- Tolerance (1) David de Bruyn
- Tolerance (2) – We Oppressed Left-Handers David de Bruyn
- Tolkien on the use of archaic language Scott Aniol
- Translating vs. Transforming David de Bruyn
- Transmitting Imagination to our Children Scott Aniol
- Truth and Tradition Scott Aniol
- Twenty-first Century Western Post-Modernism as Missional Worship Context Scott Aniol
- Two Kingdoms Scott Aniol
- Two-Kingdom vs. Transformationalism: What’s all this fuss about? Scott Aniol
- Unbelievers’ Culture Can Be Good Scott Aniol
- Unholy Culture Exists Scott Aniol
- Unicultural Uniformity David de Bruyn
- Vaughan William’s interest in English folk songs Scott Aniol
- Vaughan Williams and Folk Culture Scott Aniol
- Vocation Scott Aniol
- Vote so as to obey the Second Greatest Commandment Scott Aniol
- We Cannot Go Back! Says who? Christopher Ames
- We Don’t Want Your White Man’s Religion David de Bruyn
- What Churches Take For Granted (But No Longer Should) David de Bruyn
- What does it mean to be “culturally affirming”? Scott Aniol
- What does race have to do with worship? Scott Aniol
- What Does the Bible Really Say About Alcohol? Scott Aniol
- What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Scott Aniol
- What is race? Scott Aniol
- What music should be used when planting indigenous churches in . . . the United States of America? Scott Aniol
- What Psalm 137 Does Scott Aniol
- What The Popular Arts Are Not David de Bruyn
- What Titus Found in the Most Holy David de Bruyn
- What’s wrong with the recent evangelical “social justice” movements? Scott Aniol
- When Cultures Collide Scott Aniol
- Where Is Christ in Christmas? Scott Aniol
- Where is Christ in Christmas? Scott Aniol
- Who Made You the Authority? David de Bruyn
- Why “Subjective” Doesn’t Get You Out of Jail Free David de Bruyn
- Why Christians Should Care About Meaning in Art David de Bruyn
- Why Church Feels The Way It Does David de Bruyn
- Why do we assume that music alone is immune from cultural decay? Scott Aniol
- Why do we think new is better? Scott Aniol
- Why equating culture with ethnicity is inherently racist Scott Aniol
- Why reading the Bible is superior to watching The Bible Scott Aniol
- Why Tolkien Wrote About Middle-Earth David de Bruyn
- Why you should read the book rather than watch the movie Scott Aniol
- Without Wax David de Bruyn
- Work that Serves Christ Scott Aniol
- Worldly Liturgies Scott Aniol
- Worship Implies a Theology Christopher Ames
- Worship, hymnology, and philosophy of ministry reading list for pastors and church musicians Scott Aniol
- Wrested . . . from churchly control Ryan Martin
- Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus David de Bruyn
- You Elitist, You David de Bruyn