This selection of books, articles, videos, and websites is meant to provide you with a range of sources and theological reflections on topics that are relevant to faith & culture. We offer a comment on each resource so that you can select those which are most helpful for your context. While we appreciate the various perspectives offered through these resources, they do not necessarily reflect the values of the MacRae Centre for Christian Faith & Culture.
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A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
There are many other helpful sources but this little manifesto provides a helpful rationale doing theology in the public square.
Topic(s): Public LifeA Secular Age
This is a beast of a book, brilliant in its scope and analysis of contemporary culture by a Canadian philosopher who is a Catholic based at McGill. If you find it too overwhelming to start with Taylor, try James K.A. Smith’s guide to the book, How (Not) To Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor, Eerdmans, 2014.
Topic(s): Faith & CultureAcadia Divinity College on YouTube
Here you will find a lot of apologetic material from the last few years. In particular, presentations associated with Religion Soup include debates with Craig Evans and Bart Ehrman, Presentations by Peter Kreeft and Dan Wallace, and even a couple of debates between our MacRae Centre Director and an atheist philosopher at Acadia.
Topic(s): ApologeticsBiologos
Seeks to explore the harmony between science and biblical faith, through an evolutionary understanding of creation.
Topic(s): Science & TechnologyCanadian Baptist Ministries
The national Baptist body that coordinates international advocacy and mission for Baptists across the country.
Topic(s): Justice & ReconciliationCBC Science & Technology
Keep on top of new discoveries and changes by visiting the Sci&Tech pages of major news sites.
Topic(s): Science & TechnologyChrist and Culture
This classic, originally published in 1951 laid out a typology for relating faith and culture that remains standard reading for Christians exploring these issues. It has received plenty of criticism too; read with a critical eye. This edition benefits from a foreword by Martin Marty and Preface by James Gustafson.
Topic(s): Faith & CultureChrist at the Checkpoint
A ministry of Bethlehem Bible College, led by Palestinian Christian theologian Muther Isaac, with a conference every two years. At the website you can find background and videos from previous conferences, reflecting on the situation of Palestine and Isreal from a Palestinian Christian perspective. At the heart is a commitment to Christ and a love for all people involved in the conflict.
Topic(s): Justice & ReconciliationCultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture
This journal covers a wide range of fascinating issues related to faith and culture.
Topic(s): Faith & CultureDemaris Media
Demaris have been reflecting on culture for several years and have focused more recently on raising conversations around film. At this website you will find a blog with questions to ask about current films to start discussions and engage your friends, youth groups, small groups or your own mind. They also have an archive of well-designed discussion guides and clips that you can use to engage contemporary film. Based in Southhampton in the UK. Highly recommend.
Topic(s): TV & FilmETHICSDAILY: Challenging People of Faith to Advance the Common Good
Here you will find blogs, videos, articles and other resources from the Nashville-based Baptist Center for Ethics.
Topic(s): Public LifeGod’s Wider Presence: Reconsidering General Revelation
In this book, Johnston encourages us to consider the ways and places that God is at work in the wider world and culture, revealing himself and generating genuine encounters with the divine.
Topic(s): Faith & CultureHow (Not) To Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor
How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times.
Topic(s): Faith & CultureImago
Imago is a Christian umbrella organization to support artists and projects from various disciplines of the arts. At their website you will find interesting sources and theological reflection on art, artistic reflection on culture and more.
Topic(s): The ArtsKingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context, 2nd ed.
The best textbook for understanding Christian ethics in contemporary life from the perspective of the Sermon on the Mount. Worth having on your shelf.
Topic(s): EthicsLondon Institute for Contemporary Christianity
Founded by John Stott and led today by Mark Greene, LICC aims to help Christians think about how they live as Christians in the whole of life. They are British-based but have lots of relevant resources for church today. They have produced excellent tools for engaging with, and reflecting on the workplace. Highly recommend.
Topic(s): Faith & CultureMaking Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
Tim Keller is part of the Gospel Coalition, but is their best writer for expressing Christian belief with readable clarity and pastoral sensitivity. He wrote previously The Reason for God and Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering which also have apologetic value.
Topic(s): ApologeticsModern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism
The title plays on one by Hans Rookmaaker, a Dutch Christian scholar who wrote notably about art in the 70s. One of his best known titles is Modern Art and the Death of a Culture. You can also find his work edited into 6 volumes by Marlene Hengelaar-Rookmaaker.
Topic(s): The ArtsNAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community
NAIITS is a partner of ADC, providing theological education by indigenous scholars, from an indigenous Christian perspective. They offer theological reflection through an annual journal, and you will find videos and other resources at their website.
Topic(s): Justice & ReconciliationNetworked Theology: Negotiating Faith in Digital Culture
This book not only explores new media from a theological perspective, but considers what theological trajectories are set by that media which saturates our daily lives.
Topic(s): Science & TechnologyNeuroscience and the Soul: The Human Person in Philosophy, Science and Theology
A multi-authored work that produces dialogue on the mind-body problem.
Topic(s): Science & TechnologyReasonable Faith
This is William Lane Craig’s site, with lots of podcasts and other resources addressing particular topics. There is also a Reasonable Faith App available. His book is also a good place to start with apologetics if you have never dived in before:
William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics, Crossway, 2008. There is also a short study guide available that can be used with small groups.
Topic(s): ApologeticsReel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue
In this book, Johnston explores various approaches to culture through film. It is a very helpful place to start. A new book by Johnston and Barsotti is available, if you are interested in exploring the themes of specific films: Robert K. Johnston and Catherine M. Barsotti, God in the Movies: A Guide for Exploring Four Decades of Film, Baker, 2017. We have been privileged to have this couple teach our Doctor of Ministry students about faith and film, here at ADC.
Topic(s): TV & FilmRZIM: Ravi Zacharias International Ministries
Ravi is perhaps the world’s best-known apologist. At the website you can avail yourself of a wealth of resources and event opportunities. RZIM is conservative with a loving gentleness that commends their work. Our director has been a repeat faculty member at RZIM summer schools, and participated in the generation of other material for RZIM.
Topic(s): ApologeticsShould Christians Embrace Politics?
This is an article where Anna Robbins shares her views with others on the relevance of faith to politics.
Topic(s): Public LifeThe Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Arts
Topic(s): The ArtsThe Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics
Cambridge-based institute that produces research and papers on various ethical topics. Highly recommend.
Topic(s): EthicsTheos
Theos is a thinktank founded by the British Bible Society to offer clear thinking on religion and society. They have produced a lot of really helpful and considered reflection on a wide range of public issues. Our Director was a founding member of their theological advisory group.
Topic(s): Public LifeTransforming Niebuhr’s Categories
This entire volume revisits Niebuhr’s significance fifty years on. Marsden’s article is a helpful critique of Niebuhr’s categories, without jettisoning his typology altogether. He considers Anabaptist criticisms, and suggests a way that Niebuhr’s work can continue to be relevant for understanding the relationship between faith and culture today
Topic(s): Faith & CultureTruth and Reconciliation Commission Canada
Here you will find all the documents and videos related to the TRC process on First Nations people and residential schools in Canada.
Topic(s): Justice & ReconciliationWatching TV Religiously: Television and Theology in Dialogue
A helpful guide to understanding TV and engaging television theologically.
Topic(s): TV & FilmYale Center for Faith & Culture
Led by theologian, this Centre provides research and reflection on practices of faith that contribute to Human Flourishing and the public good.
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