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  • Life in the Negative World

  • Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture
  • By: Aaron M. Renn
  • Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
  • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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Learning how to live in today's new social and cultural environment will require examination, trial and error, and adaptation over time. But there are ways to live with integrity and follow Christ today, even in a negative world.

From a peak in church attendance in the mid-20th century, Christianity has been on a trajectory of decline in the United States. Once positive toward Christianity and Christian moral teachings, cultural shifts toward the mid-90s led many to adopt a more neutral tone toward the Christian faith, seeing it as one option among many in a pluralistic public square. Today, however, Christianity is viewed negatively, and being known as a Christian often means a lower social status in elite society. Christian morality is openly repudiated and viewed as a threat to the new moral order.

In Life in the Negative World, author Aaron M. Renn looks at the lessons from Christian cultural engagement over the past 70 years and suggests specific strategies for churches, institutions, and individuals to live faithfully in the "negative" world—a culture opposed to Christian values and teachings. And since there is no one-size-fits-all solution, living as a follower of Christ in the new, negative world and being missionally engaged will require a diversity of strategies.

©2024 Aaron Renn (P)2024 Zondervan
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A Once-in-a-Decade seminal insight

This may be for me one of those once-in-a-decade analyses that makes sense of the past 60-odd years. More importantly, it sets out a programme of research and work that makes sense for the *next* 60.
And it's American.
Who cares? I don't.
Any voice that provides an astringent to the moribund mood in which Evangelicalism is currently found is welcome. That one so incisively diagnoses our malaise and loss of moral credibility, and so faithfully speaks difficult truth to point a robust way forward feels almost prophetic.
I shall be dedicating myself to following up the referenced works (specifically Reder, Lewis and Niebuhr) and to finding British writers and thinkers bringing similarly perspicacity to our situation so the coming generation are equipped with truly 21st century tools for expressing Kingdom in an avowedly pagan culture.
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