A God who does his best work in the dark hours is integral to the story of American evangelical Christianity. The stuff of country music songs and conversions in roadside motels, Jesus tends to come to people at their lowest and loneliest. The only problem is that some of God’s most pernicious modern apostles understand this all too well. At a time when fewer and fewer believers are going to church, it is consumption, in these dark times, that illuminates a deeply antisocial shift in evangelical
by Thomas Schenk This morning as I sat on my patio drinking coffee, I looked up at the sky where the rising sun was shining on the clouds. And it struck
Hi! I am a cultural sociologist on a tour of Texas Megachurches. Check out my first post here. Today I am covering Oak Hills Church and its celebrity It's hard to explain how Protestantism found its way from Jonathan Edwards to Max Lucado.
Hi! I am a cultural sociologist on a tour of Texas Megachurches. Check out my first post here. Today I am covering Oak Hills Church and its celebrity It's hard to explain how Protestantism found its way from Jonathan Edwards to Max Lucado.