Church

Why We Can't Change the World

We're encouraged when we see others casting huge visions and undertaking significant initiatives; we're inspired to go out and do something that will change the world. But what if we've gotten it wrong when it comes to how the world is changed? Consider some thoughts that are guaranteed to challenge your assumptions.

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Gospel

From Purchases To Practices

Many things have changed in America over the last 100 years. Unfortunately, this has resulted in devastating consequences, especially for those of us who follow Christ and seek to be creators and cultivators of culture.

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Government

Social Mobility and Power

Interview with Michael Linsday, Sociologist and President of Gordon College

Recently named the 8th president of Gordon College, Michael Lindsay has been a leading expert on religion and public life over the last several years. As a sociologist and professor at Rice University, Lindsay has interviewed hundreds of Christ followers who are in positions of cultural power. In this interview, he and Andy Crouch explore the relationship between Christians, social mobility, and power.


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Church

Power, Privilege and Risk

The West represents the wealthiest and most educated people in the world. As beneficiaries of this environment, how are we as Christians to think about such power? Do we have a special responsibility to take a countercultural view on the privileges that come with this power? Thought-leader Andy Crouch addresses these issues and provides a different perspective on power, one that does not demonize it, but helps us understand its proper use.

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Cities

Ten Most Significant Cultural Trends of the Last Decade

Because there is no year 0, a decade runs from 01/01 - 12/10. As we enter the second decade of the second millennium AD, Q is pausing to look back on the last ten years. In the first of this multi-post series, author Andy Crouch considers the cultural trends that most significantly changed our world.

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Arts + Entertainment

The Pinnacle of Power: What I saw at the U2 concert

Sometime in high school, I acquired the idea that attending a rock concert, for a middle-class kid anyway, was a transgressive act. It was a step out of the sedate norms of suburban life into an exhilarating, dangerous netherworld, an intoxicating haze of smoke, primal rhythms, and throbbing sensuality—throwing off the shackles of predictable conformity and throwing down the gauntlet of rebellion.

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Restorers

Stepping Into Culture

Understand your postures and gestures toward culture and your potential to cultivate and create culture.

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Gospel

When Christians Have Power

The word “power” often brings to mind the image of a mighty dictator or rolling tank, marble floors and wealthy exuberance. Power in our world is synonymous with force, violence, and poorly wielded influence. But could power mean something different? Something more redeeming? Andy Crouch asks what it would mean, as Christians, to wield power well ...

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