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Science Corner: The Top-Down Route to your Community

November 4, 2015 by Andy Walsh No Comments

Question: What I am seeing is that the understandably busy lives of even highly motivated Christian professionals often lead them to become more and more isolated from those parts of society most in need of outreach, friendship, and fellowship from Christians. So…how can those in the hectic years of research, working on getting those final papers done for the PhD, etc., not lose touch with the problems within their own local community?

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: community, local communities, neighbor, neighborhood, science, science corner, science reader question

Changing the World with James Davison Hunter

August 2, 2010 by Micheal Hickerson 4 Comments

Cover of To Change the World

James Davison Hunter, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, has produced a seminal book on cultural formation and change, particularly insightful on how Christians (primarily evangelical) have understood and misunderstood culture change over the past 40 years or so.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: church, culture, culture-making, james davison hunter, local communities, To Change the World

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