MasterLectures on Culture
Engage the public square on issues of ethics, injustice, racism, and gender with vision and verve. Challenge the status quo, ask the tough questions. Reflect on the thought-provoking answers that call us to action.
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The Truth in True Crime (J. Warner Wallace)
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For decades, cold-case homicide detective J. Warner Wallace investigated the causes behind deaths and murders, chasing one lead after another as he attempted to solve the case. In The Truth in True Crime, Wallace explores the clues lying behind our human nature as he unco...
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2084 (John C. Lennox)
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You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where we're headed. Even now, technological innovations and machine learning have a daily impact on our lives, and many of us see good reasons to dread the future...
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A Burning House (Brandon Washington)
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American Evangelicalism is ablaze. Doctrinal identity unites black and white evangelicals, but divisions along ethnic and cultural lines have long tarnished the movement's witness. With desegregation on the horizon, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I've come to believe that we are integrating into a...
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Color of Compromise (Jemar Tisby)
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An acclaimed, timely study of how people of faith have historically—up to the present day—worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in response. The Color of Compromise is both enlightening and compelling, telling a history we either ignore or just don't ...
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Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth (Thaddeus J. Williams)
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Social justice is not optional for the Christian. But the Bible's call to seek justice is not a call to superficial, kneejerk activism. Drawing from a diverse range of theologians, sociologists, artists, and activists, Thaddeus Williams builds a case that we must be discerning if we are to "truly...
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Ethics beyond Rules (Keith D. Stanglin)
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How should Christians live? How should we interact with one another? Why do we think the way we do about right and wrong? How should we approach today's complex moral questions? Keith Stanglin realigns our ethical thinking around the central question: What does real love require? applying it to o...
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How to Fight Racism (Jemar Tisby)
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Become a proactive initiator of racial justice. Jemar Tisby presents a simple framework for confronting racism--the A.R.C. Of Racial Justice--increase your awareness, develop authentic relationships, and make a commitment. Full of practical tools and suggestions, actionable items, and real-world ...
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Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Aimee Byrd)
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While evangelicalism dukes it out about who can be church leaders, the rest of the 98% of us need to be well-equipped to see where we fit in God's household and why that matters. The Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Video Study will help improve the culture of our churches and disci...
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Subversive Witness (Dominique DuBois Gilliard)
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Dominique DuBois Gilliard inspires us to reimagine how we think about privilege and exercise power. Instead of denying the existence of privilege or feeling incapacitated by it, Christians can learn to wield privilege as an instrument to advance the kingdom and sacrificially love our neighbors.
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The Hope in Our Scars (Aimee Byrd)
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Focus on a book of the Bible: Song of Solomon
Aimee Byrd peels back the church's underlying and pervasive theology of power to face the shame that lurks there and find the lasting hope of belonging in Christ. Some things happening in the church these days should provoke our anger. It's racked wi...
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The Sexual Reformation (Aimee Byrd)
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Study of a Book of the Bible: Song of Solomon
The church is sadly confused about what it means to be a man or a woman. While secular society talks about sexuality in terms of liberation, many in the church define manhood and womanhood in terms of reductive roles that rob us of the dignity of per...