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Lectures in Culture

 

Gospel Culture: Understanding Culture

by Joe Boot

June 3, 2021

At the 2021 Colombian Association for Christian Schools Conference Joe Boot introduces what it means to transform the culture through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, especially as it relates to the field of Education.

 

Transforming Culture

by Joe Boot

March 26, 2020

The early church experienced growth not through politics or church growth models, but by the grace of God, and produced the most free societies the world has ever seen. The gospel – not politics or planning – still has this power.

 

Foundations for Cultural Engagement

by Joe Boot

March 25, 2020

At ReformCon 2019, Joe Boot explains that without freedom to live as Christians in every area of society, engaging in culture becomes a moot point.

 

Q&A: Confronting Secular Culture

by Joe Boot

February 28, 2020

Pastor and apologist Joe Boot answers questions on confronting secular culture.

 

Cultivating Culture

by Joe Boot

August 14, 2019

A consistently Christian worldview has almost vanished from culture and church in our time. Joe Boot demonstrates the importance of recovering a view of all things that centres on recognizing Christ as the religious foundation of all knowledge. 

 

Jesus is King of the Nations

by Douglas Wilson

June 10, 2019

Rev. Douglas Wilson discusses our contemporary "empires of dirt" –  the self-destructing strategy of secularism – and the way forward as Christian leaders in calling our nation back to Jesus Christ.

 

Engaging the Cultural Landscape

by Joe Boot and Ted Fenske

August 8, 2018 | Proverbs 27:17

Founder Joe Boot and EICC Fellow Ted Fenske join a panel discussion at BreakForth Edmonton to talk about racism, Christianity as colonialism, teaching your kids critical thinking, the relationship of the state to other spheres of society, and the principle of cultural diversity found in the Trinity.

 

Viewing the Cultural Landscape

by Joe Boot

May 7, 2018 | Acts 17

The residual Christian worldview is declining in our culture. Rather than seeking to encounter the world as it is given, the prevailing cultural motive is to impose on the world an artificial and unrealistic vision of origins, ethics and destiny that stands in rebellion to God.

 

Gospel Culture: Crisis & Hope

by Joe Boot

July 19, 2017

How do we understand our present cultural moment? What is our relationship to the culture surrounding us? And what hope does Scripture offer our culture? In the first of a series of Cornerstones lectures, Dr. Joe Boot introduces us to the biblical concept of gospel culture.

 

The Death of Man and the Crisis of the Social Order

by Joe Boot

May 10, 2016

Without love to God and a recognition of his Word-revelation to us in Christ and in Scripture, we are not only unable to truly love our neighbor, we cannot even identify them truly. We find, in fact, that we cannot answer the most elementary question ‘what is a human person?’ Our rejection of God and the image of God in man leads to the endless defacing and destruction of that imagerather than seeking life and light in the triune God. 

 

Uncovering the Truth about Jihad in Islam

by Steven Martins

October 30, 2015

Where do jihadists find the support for their convictions and terrorist actions? How do we understand the popular refrain that Islam is a religion of peace? 

 

Why Christian Culture: The Ruin and Restoration

by Andrew Sandlin

November 17, 2014

MOG2014 04: Culture is the use and ordering of creation for a purpose. Equipped by the word and Spirit of God, the Christian's glorious calling is to build a godly culture, seeking first the Kingdom of God.