Quotes About Culture

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

Christians should be on the front lines fighting to liberate society from its captivity to secular worldviews.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

Western culture is regressively falling back into a dualism that denigrates the material realm, just as paganism did.

In every field, Christians must learn critical thinking skills. Otherwise, we may simply absorb idol-based philosophies from the intellectual atmosphere.

Typically it takes several generations for a worldview and all its implications to thoroughly permeate a society.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

if everything is historically relative, then so is the idea of historicism itself.

Lecrae's message is that we do not need to be afraid of cultural differences because Christianity has the resources to speak to every culture.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

English Passengers, a first novel by Matthew Kneale, relates what follows when a group of Englishmen arrive in mid-nineteenth-century Tasmania with different purposes: to find the Garden of Eden, to prove the natives are less intelligent than the British, and to escape from British law. Kneale also describes the tragic life of a young Aboriginal whose experiences are shaped by the arrival of the British.

In Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata, the first of Japan's two Nobel laureates, describes the sad and sorry love affair of a geisha from the country and an intellectual from the city. It's

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Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa reveals the upheaval of partition through the eyes of a child, "Lame Lenny," a young Parsi girl crippled from polio. Lenny's world is her beloved and beautiful Hindu ayah and her ayah's many Muslim admirers, the cook Imam Din, and the Untouchable gardener.

There are also some moving sections about World War II in Anthony Burgess's Any Old Iron, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, Kit Reed's At War As Children, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard, and Nancy Willard's Things Invisible to See.

tall women of Swedish descent attract attention that's way out of proportion to our relative importance to the world.

By telling Christians they are citizens of heaven, then, Paul was telling them to permeate the world with a heavenly culture.

But what progressives fail to understand is that every social practice rests on certain assumptions of what the world is like—a worldview. When a society accepts the practice, it absorbs the worldview that justifies it.

In today's pluralistic, multicultural world, no one can survive long on secondhand ideas. Some Christians seem to think the way to avoid being "conformed to this world" (Rom. 12:2) is by avoiding "worldly" ideas. A better strategy is to learn the skills to critically evaluate them.

We have learned that "politics is downstream from culture, not the other way around," says Bill Wichterman, policy advisor to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. "Real change has to start with the culture. All we can do on Capitol Hill is try to find ways government can nurture healthy cultural trends.

early Christians viewed children as complete and valuable human beings. One result, says Bakke, was that Christian parents practiced a much "greater involvement in upbringing than was generally the case in pagan families.

A young woman's ability to read beyond the bible had little practical value.

Hysterical. That word had unfortunate ramifications.

Raised in an era when women were valued for their sexuality, solicitude , and silence, the eighteen year old stood loyally by Arnold's side.