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Read Up
V o l u m e 1
Get the
Conversation
Started
book Selections
amp Questions for
reading groups
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PO Box 983089983092983088983088 Downers Grove IL 1048630983088983093983089983093-9830899830929830901048630
World Wide Web wwwivpresscom
Email emailivpresscom
copy983090983088983089983092 by InerVarsiy Chrisian Fellowship
All righs reserved No par of his book may be reproduced in any form wihou writen permission from InerVarsiy Press
InerVarsiy Pressreg is he book-publishing division of InerVarsiyChrisian FellowshipUSAreg a movemen of sudens and faculy aciveon campus a hundreds of universiies colleges and schools of nursing inhe Unied Saes of America and a member movemen of he Inerna-ional Fellowship of Evangelical Sudens For informaion abou localand regional aciviies wrie Public Relaions Dep InerVarsiyChrisian FellowshipUSA 1048630983092983088983088 Schroeder Rd PO Box 98309510486321048633983093 Madison
WI 983093983091983095983088983095-98309510486321048633983093 or visi he IVCF websie a wwwinervarsiyorg
Cover design David Fasset
Inerior design Beh Hagenberg
Images Woman wih coffee copy Ryan LaneiSockphoo
ISBN 10486339830951048632-983088-10486329830919830881048632-9830931048632983089983090-983093 (prin)
ISBN 10486339830951048632-983088-10486329830919830881048632-98309310486331048633983095-1048633 (digial)
Prined in he Unied Saes of America infin
InerVarsiy Press is commited o proecing he environmenand o he responsible use of naural resources As a member
of Green Press Iniiaive we use recycled paper whenever possible olearn more abou he Green Press Iniiaive visi wwwgreenpressini-iaiveorg
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Dear Fellow Reader
Reading is a soliary ac For many o us i is a orm o rerea991252a welcomedsilence and deserved res om our demanding rouines We have our avoriespo in he house he unmade bed he couch long enough o doze on ormaybe he off-limis living room Wherever i is when we are here wih bookin hand and maybe our avorie cup o ea (my avorie is anyhing peach) allwho encouner us know o ldquoshushrdquo Irsquos reading ime
Bu when you read a really good book arenrsquo you jus dying o alk abou i
Halway hrough or maybe even in he inroducion who comes o mindTerersquos always someone we canrsquo wai o share our newound knowledge wihor ell o our disbelie o an auhorrsquos opinion We can agree or disagree wihhe auhor and he or she is none he wiser Bu our dear ellow reader isalways eager o hear our perspecive Or a leas we hope so
In reading groups we donrsquo have o hope someone wans o hear our opinions991252irsquos expeced And even beter he idea or concep ha we missed in our
reading is ofen wha our ellow readers will discover and share wih us Ourldquoahardquo momens are muliplied in conversaion Even in disagreemen991252maybe especially when we disagree991252here is opporuniy o learn om oneanoher as we seek o undersand differen poins o view
In he end our shared conversaion becomes anoher welcomed respie as we glean wisdom and receive undersanding om one anoher My hope is hahe diverse assormen o iles in his firs volume o Read Up will provide
you and your group wih books ha lead o boh simulaing reading andmeaningul conversaion
Read up
Lorraine Caulon
Edior Read Up
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CONTENTS
Birmingham Revolution 8
Breaking Old Rhythms 12
Coffee with Jesus 16
Courage and Calling 20
Culture Making 22
Disunity in Christ 24
The Easy Burden of Pleasing God 26
Eat with Joy 28
Exposing Myths About Christianity 30
A Free Peoplersquos Suicide 32
The Girl in the Orange Dress 34
The Global Public Square 36
God Behaving Badly 38
The God-Shaped Brain 40
Holy Is the Day 42
In Search of Deep Faith 44
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 46
The Language of Science and Faith 50
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A Mind for God 52
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes 54
Playing God 56
Popcultured 58
Reconciling All Things 62
Sensible Shoes 66
The Singer 70
Surrender to Love 74
Table in the Darkness 76
Troubled Minds 80
Undone 82
An Unhurried Life 84
The Unkingdom of God 86
Wanting to Be Her 88
A Week in the Life of Corinth 90
The World Is Not Ours to Save 92
Leading a Book Discussion 94
Connect with Us 96
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ldquoYou can never ge a cup o ea large enough
or a book long enough o sui merdquo
C S LEWIS
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BIRMINGHAM REVOLUTION
Martin Luther King Jrrsquos Epic
Challenge to the Church
Edward Gilbreath
Dr Marin Luher King Jrrsquos words and hisoriceffors as he Moses of his civil righsmovemen sand ou as perhaps he mos sig-nifican insance of a modern Chrisian leaderacing in a propheic role o insigae poliical
change In many ways ldquoTe Leter from Birmingham Jailrdquo sands a hecener of ha movemen In his book African American journalisEdward Gilbreah explores he place of ha leter in he life and work ofDr King
Birmingham Revoluion is no simply a work of hisorical reflecion Gil- breah encourages us o reflec on he relevance of Kingrsquos work for hechurch and culure of our day Wheher irsquos in debaes abou immi-
graion economic redisribuion or presidenial birh cerificaes raceconinues o play a role in shaping sociey Wha par will he churchplay in he ongoing sruggle
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Gilbreah is he auhor ofReconciliaion Blues A Black Evangelicalrsquos Inside View o WhieChrisianiy An award-winning journalis he serves as an ediora large for Chrisianiy oday magazine and as he execuive di-recor of communicaions for he Evangelical Covenan Church
ldquoTe calling o a prophe is a glorious burden Te propheic voice o Marin Luher King is as needed by he church oday as i was hal a cenury ago Edward Gilbreah allows us o hear i wih deph and powerrdquo
John Orberg senior pasor of Menlo Park Presbyerian Church and auhor of Who
Is Tis Man
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QUESTIONS
1048625 On page 10486251048626 Gilbreah assers ha ldquohe idea of race is so enrenchedin our hinking ha irsquos almos impossible o imagine no seeing he
world hrough a racialized lensrdquo Do you agree Why or why no1048626 According o one Chrisian leader Marin Luher King Jrrsquos ldquoLeter
from Birmingham Jailrdquo suggess ha he figh for social jusice is ldquoanessenial mark of he gospelrdquo (p 10486251048631) How does he idea of jusice fiino your undersanding of he Chrisian gospel
1048627 Chaper 1048626 feaures foureen key hemes and experiences ha shapedMarin Luher King Jrrsquos early life Which one surprised you he
mos1048628 In chaper 1048627 pasor Rober Graez said he civil righs movemen
was a church movemen (pp 10486291048624-10486291048625) Do you hink people overlookhis fac Wha would he movemen have looked like wihou heinvolvemen of he church
1048629 Te circumsances ha preceded Dr Kingrsquos arres in Birminghamon Good Friday almos derailed he movemen According o King
he had o ldquomake a faih acrdquo (p 10486311048624) Wha do he evens in room 10486271048624of he Gason Moel ell us abou Kingrsquos undersanding of faih
983094 According o one scholar ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo repre-sened ldquoa culminaion of all of Kingrsquos ideas heology experiencesand civil righs acicsrdquo (p 104862510486241048631) How do you see all of hese hingscoming o bear in Kingrsquos leter
1048631 Chaper 10486251048625 explores how our percepions of Dr King have become
disored over he years Before reading his book wha was yourpercepion of King Wha is i now
983096 Birmingham naive Diane McWhorer observes ha many Birming-hamians have ried o go from ldquoamnesiardquo o ldquoclosurerdquo regarding heirciyrsquos hisory (p 104862510486291048629) ldquoYou canrsquo go around irdquo she says ldquoYou mus gohrough irdquo Wha does i mean o ldquogo hroughrdquo our difficul hisory
983097 In he epilogue (pp 10486259830941048631-983094983097) Gilbreah offers four concluding ideas
abou Dr King and he Birmingham revoluion (1048625) know where your power comes from (1048626) embrace your inner Shutlesworh (1048627)le no man despise your youh (1048628) live your leter Wha migh heseideas look like in your personal faih journey
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Conversation with Edward Gilbreath
Counless books and aricles have been writen abou Marin LuherKing Jr over he years Wha inspired you o share anoher perspecive
on King in Birmingham Revolution
Edward Gilbreah Terersquos a muliude of books abou King and he civilrighs movemen bu I fel compelled o ell he sory from he perspeciveof an African American evangelical who was born a year aer Dr Kingrsquos deahMany people from my generaion and younger donrsquo always have a full picure
of who King really was991252his courage his radicalism his faih his humaniy I waned o shed ligh on hese aspecs of King and above all show he churchha everyhing he did was driven by his Chrisian faih and values
Wha was significan abou Birmingham as a sage for he civil
righs movemen
Edward In 98308910486331048630983091 Birmingham Alabama was one of he mos noorioussrongholds of segregaion and whie supremacy in he Souh I was a place
described by King as ldquohe mos horoughly segregaed ciy in he UniedSaesrdquo No only were he public insiuions such as libraries segregaed
bu i was so severe ha even books ha conained phoos of black rabbisand whie rabbis ogeher were banned from he library shelves I was aciy where bulles bombs and burning crosses served as consan deerrenso blacks who aspired o anyhing greaer han heir assigned saion of in-equaliy Rev Fred Shutlesworh a fiery Bapis preacher in Birminghamhad implored King and his Souhern Chrisian Leadership Conference as-sociaes o come o Birmingham and help he ciyrsquos black communiy con-fron segregaion He old hem ldquoI assure you if you come o Birmingham
we will no only gain presige bu really shake he counryrdquo He knew ha ifhe movemen could change hings in Birmingham i would reverberaehroughou he naion
Wha was he significance of Kingrsquos ldquoLeter from Birminghamrdquo
Edward Te Birmingham campaign sared ou slowly bu aer King wasarresed on Good Friday for his movemenrsquos public demonsraion on hesrees of Birmingham hings began o change While in soliary con-finemen he was shown a newspaper op-ed column by eigh moderae
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clergymen in Birmingham Tey implored him o wai for he laws o akeeffec Bu King believed he black communiy had waied long enoughhey needed o ake a sand and sir he conscience of Birmingham and ofhe naion His response o he op-ed was a passionae leter ha spelled ouhe reasons why he movemen couldnrsquo wai and poined ou he differ-ences beween jus and unjus laws He wroe he leter on he margins ofhe newspaper on scraps of any paper he could gaher and when he ran ouhe reporedly wroe on he oile paper in his cell Aer is publicaion
weeks laer he ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo would become one of hemos lucid and convincing argumens for social jusice and civil righs ha
wersquove ever had Wharsquos more i was rooed in he heology and principles
of he Chrisian gospel Why do you hink King was more a ldquopropherdquo of social jusice
Edward Irsquos easy o wan o wrie Dr King off as jus a leader who gave agood speech Bu in doing ha we risk missing he fac ha he was vehe-menly disliked in his day and ha as ime wen on he was becoming in-creasingly angry and impaien wih he pace of change in he naion Laein his life he wroe ldquoWhies are no puting in a mass effor o re-educae
hemselves ou of heir racial ignorancerdquo While he rejeced he miliancy ofhe Black Power movemen he undersood he roos of is membersrsquo dis-conen As a Chrisian miniser and Nobel Peace Prize recipien King alsofel compelled o speak ou agains he Vienam conflic Tis also served oland him on some of Americarsquos ldquomos haedrdquo liss In all hese cases he wasspeaking ou as a prophe of social jusice Bu harsquos ypically no he Kingha we choose o focus on oday
Wha do you hope readers ake away from Birmingham Revolution
Edward I wan people o discover he full humaniy of Dr Marin LuherKing Jr o move beyond viewing him as his genle ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo char-acer o seeing him as he propheic and oen radical Chrisian visionaryha he was I wan people o discover and rediscover Dr Kingrsquos ldquoLeter fromBirmingham Jailrdquo as a message encompassing his holisic vision of hegospel lived ou in everyday life
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POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
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QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
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Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
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Read Up
V o l u m e 1
Get the
Conversation
Started
book Selections
amp Questions for
reading groups
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InerVarsiy Press
PO Box 983089983092983088983088 Downers Grove IL 1048630983088983093983089983093-9830899830929830901048630
World Wide Web wwwivpresscom
Email emailivpresscom
copy983090983088983089983092 by InerVarsiy Chrisian Fellowship
All righs reserved No par of his book may be reproduced in any form wihou writen permission from InerVarsiy Press
InerVarsiy Pressreg is he book-publishing division of InerVarsiyChrisian FellowshipUSAreg a movemen of sudens and faculy aciveon campus a hundreds of universiies colleges and schools of nursing inhe Unied Saes of America and a member movemen of he Inerna-ional Fellowship of Evangelical Sudens For informaion abou localand regional aciviies wrie Public Relaions Dep InerVarsiyChrisian FellowshipUSA 1048630983092983088983088 Schroeder Rd PO Box 98309510486321048633983093 Madison
WI 983093983091983095983088983095-98309510486321048633983093 or visi he IVCF websie a wwwinervarsiyorg
Cover design David Fasset
Inerior design Beh Hagenberg
Images Woman wih coffee copy Ryan LaneiSockphoo
ISBN 10486339830951048632-983088-10486329830919830881048632-9830931048632983089983090-983093 (prin)
ISBN 10486339830951048632-983088-10486329830919830881048632-98309310486331048633983095-1048633 (digial)
Prined in he Unied Saes of America infin
InerVarsiy Press is commited o proecing he environmenand o he responsible use of naural resources As a member
of Green Press Iniiaive we use recycled paper whenever possible olearn more abou he Green Press Iniiaive visi wwwgreenpressini-iaiveorg
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Dear Fellow Reader
Reading is a soliary ac For many o us i is a orm o rerea991252a welcomedsilence and deserved res om our demanding rouines We have our avoriespo in he house he unmade bed he couch long enough o doze on ormaybe he off-limis living room Wherever i is when we are here wih bookin hand and maybe our avorie cup o ea (my avorie is anyhing peach) allwho encouner us know o ldquoshushrdquo Irsquos reading ime
Bu when you read a really good book arenrsquo you jus dying o alk abou i
Halway hrough or maybe even in he inroducion who comes o mindTerersquos always someone we canrsquo wai o share our newound knowledge wihor ell o our disbelie o an auhorrsquos opinion We can agree or disagree wihhe auhor and he or she is none he wiser Bu our dear ellow reader isalways eager o hear our perspecive Or a leas we hope so
In reading groups we donrsquo have o hope someone wans o hear our opinions991252irsquos expeced And even beter he idea or concep ha we missed in our
reading is ofen wha our ellow readers will discover and share wih us Ourldquoahardquo momens are muliplied in conversaion Even in disagreemen991252maybe especially when we disagree991252here is opporuniy o learn om oneanoher as we seek o undersand differen poins o view
In he end our shared conversaion becomes anoher welcomed respie as we glean wisdom and receive undersanding om one anoher My hope is hahe diverse assormen o iles in his firs volume o Read Up will provide
you and your group wih books ha lead o boh simulaing reading andmeaningul conversaion
Read up
Lorraine Caulon
Edior Read Up
PS Visi ivpresscomreadup o view our new Reading Group page
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions
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CONTENTS
Birmingham Revolution 8
Breaking Old Rhythms 12
Coffee with Jesus 16
Courage and Calling 20
Culture Making 22
Disunity in Christ 24
The Easy Burden of Pleasing God 26
Eat with Joy 28
Exposing Myths About Christianity 30
A Free Peoplersquos Suicide 32
The Girl in the Orange Dress 34
The Global Public Square 36
God Behaving Badly 38
The God-Shaped Brain 40
Holy Is the Day 42
In Search of Deep Faith 44
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 46
The Language of Science and Faith 50
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A Mind for God 52
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes 54
Playing God 56
Popcultured 58
Reconciling All Things 62
Sensible Shoes 66
The Singer 70
Surrender to Love 74
Table in the Darkness 76
Troubled Minds 80
Undone 82
An Unhurried Life 84
The Unkingdom of God 86
Wanting to Be Her 88
A Week in the Life of Corinth 90
The World Is Not Ours to Save 92
Leading a Book Discussion 94
Connect with Us 96
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ldquoYou can never ge a cup o ea large enough
or a book long enough o sui merdquo
C S LEWIS
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BIRMINGHAM REVOLUTION
Martin Luther King Jrrsquos Epic
Challenge to the Church
Edward Gilbreath
Dr Marin Luher King Jrrsquos words and hisoriceffors as he Moses of his civil righsmovemen sand ou as perhaps he mos sig-nifican insance of a modern Chrisian leaderacing in a propheic role o insigae poliical
change In many ways ldquoTe Leter from Birmingham Jailrdquo sands a hecener of ha movemen In his book African American journalisEdward Gilbreah explores he place of ha leter in he life and work ofDr King
Birmingham Revoluion is no simply a work of hisorical reflecion Gil- breah encourages us o reflec on he relevance of Kingrsquos work for hechurch and culure of our day Wheher irsquos in debaes abou immi-
graion economic redisribuion or presidenial birh cerificaes raceconinues o play a role in shaping sociey Wha par will he churchplay in he ongoing sruggle
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Gilbreah is he auhor ofReconciliaion Blues A Black Evangelicalrsquos Inside View o WhieChrisianiy An award-winning journalis he serves as an ediora large for Chrisianiy oday magazine and as he execuive di-recor of communicaions for he Evangelical Covenan Church
ldquoTe calling o a prophe is a glorious burden Te propheic voice o Marin Luher King is as needed by he church oday as i was hal a cenury ago Edward Gilbreah allows us o hear i wih deph and powerrdquo
John Orberg senior pasor of Menlo Park Presbyerian Church and auhor of Who
Is Tis Man
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QUESTIONS
1048625 On page 10486251048626 Gilbreah assers ha ldquohe idea of race is so enrenchedin our hinking ha irsquos almos impossible o imagine no seeing he
world hrough a racialized lensrdquo Do you agree Why or why no1048626 According o one Chrisian leader Marin Luher King Jrrsquos ldquoLeter
from Birmingham Jailrdquo suggess ha he figh for social jusice is ldquoanessenial mark of he gospelrdquo (p 10486251048631) How does he idea of jusice fiino your undersanding of he Chrisian gospel
1048627 Chaper 1048626 feaures foureen key hemes and experiences ha shapedMarin Luher King Jrrsquos early life Which one surprised you he
mos1048628 In chaper 1048627 pasor Rober Graez said he civil righs movemen
was a church movemen (pp 10486291048624-10486291048625) Do you hink people overlookhis fac Wha would he movemen have looked like wihou heinvolvemen of he church
1048629 Te circumsances ha preceded Dr Kingrsquos arres in Birminghamon Good Friday almos derailed he movemen According o King
he had o ldquomake a faih acrdquo (p 10486311048624) Wha do he evens in room 10486271048624of he Gason Moel ell us abou Kingrsquos undersanding of faih
983094 According o one scholar ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo repre-sened ldquoa culminaion of all of Kingrsquos ideas heology experiencesand civil righs acicsrdquo (p 104862510486241048631) How do you see all of hese hingscoming o bear in Kingrsquos leter
1048631 Chaper 10486251048625 explores how our percepions of Dr King have become
disored over he years Before reading his book wha was yourpercepion of King Wha is i now
983096 Birmingham naive Diane McWhorer observes ha many Birming-hamians have ried o go from ldquoamnesiardquo o ldquoclosurerdquo regarding heirciyrsquos hisory (p 104862510486291048629) ldquoYou canrsquo go around irdquo she says ldquoYou mus gohrough irdquo Wha does i mean o ldquogo hroughrdquo our difficul hisory
983097 In he epilogue (pp 10486259830941048631-983094983097) Gilbreah offers four concluding ideas
abou Dr King and he Birmingham revoluion (1048625) know where your power comes from (1048626) embrace your inner Shutlesworh (1048627)le no man despise your youh (1048628) live your leter Wha migh heseideas look like in your personal faih journey
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Conversation with Edward Gilbreath
Counless books and aricles have been writen abou Marin LuherKing Jr over he years Wha inspired you o share anoher perspecive
on King in Birmingham Revolution
Edward Gilbreah Terersquos a muliude of books abou King and he civilrighs movemen bu I fel compelled o ell he sory from he perspeciveof an African American evangelical who was born a year aer Dr Kingrsquos deahMany people from my generaion and younger donrsquo always have a full picure
of who King really was991252his courage his radicalism his faih his humaniy I waned o shed ligh on hese aspecs of King and above all show he churchha everyhing he did was driven by his Chrisian faih and values
Wha was significan abou Birmingham as a sage for he civil
righs movemen
Edward In 98308910486331048630983091 Birmingham Alabama was one of he mos noorioussrongholds of segregaion and whie supremacy in he Souh I was a place
described by King as ldquohe mos horoughly segregaed ciy in he UniedSaesrdquo No only were he public insiuions such as libraries segregaed
bu i was so severe ha even books ha conained phoos of black rabbisand whie rabbis ogeher were banned from he library shelves I was aciy where bulles bombs and burning crosses served as consan deerrenso blacks who aspired o anyhing greaer han heir assigned saion of in-equaliy Rev Fred Shutlesworh a fiery Bapis preacher in Birminghamhad implored King and his Souhern Chrisian Leadership Conference as-sociaes o come o Birmingham and help he ciyrsquos black communiy con-fron segregaion He old hem ldquoI assure you if you come o Birmingham
we will no only gain presige bu really shake he counryrdquo He knew ha ifhe movemen could change hings in Birmingham i would reverberaehroughou he naion
Wha was he significance of Kingrsquos ldquoLeter from Birminghamrdquo
Edward Te Birmingham campaign sared ou slowly bu aer King wasarresed on Good Friday for his movemenrsquos public demonsraion on hesrees of Birmingham hings began o change While in soliary con-finemen he was shown a newspaper op-ed column by eigh moderae
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11
clergymen in Birmingham Tey implored him o wai for he laws o akeeffec Bu King believed he black communiy had waied long enoughhey needed o ake a sand and sir he conscience of Birmingham and ofhe naion His response o he op-ed was a passionae leter ha spelled ouhe reasons why he movemen couldnrsquo wai and poined ou he differ-ences beween jus and unjus laws He wroe he leter on he margins ofhe newspaper on scraps of any paper he could gaher and when he ran ouhe reporedly wroe on he oile paper in his cell Aer is publicaion
weeks laer he ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo would become one of hemos lucid and convincing argumens for social jusice and civil righs ha
wersquove ever had Wharsquos more i was rooed in he heology and principles
of he Chrisian gospel Why do you hink King was more a ldquopropherdquo of social jusice
Edward Irsquos easy o wan o wrie Dr King off as jus a leader who gave agood speech Bu in doing ha we risk missing he fac ha he was vehe-menly disliked in his day and ha as ime wen on he was becoming in-creasingly angry and impaien wih he pace of change in he naion Laein his life he wroe ldquoWhies are no puting in a mass effor o re-educae
hemselves ou of heir racial ignorancerdquo While he rejeced he miliancy ofhe Black Power movemen he undersood he roos of is membersrsquo dis-conen As a Chrisian miniser and Nobel Peace Prize recipien King alsofel compelled o speak ou agains he Vienam conflic Tis also served oland him on some of Americarsquos ldquomos haedrdquo liss In all hese cases he wasspeaking ou as a prophe of social jusice Bu harsquos ypically no he Kingha we choose o focus on oday
Wha do you hope readers ake away from Birmingham Revolution
Edward I wan people o discover he full humaniy of Dr Marin LuherKing Jr o move beyond viewing him as his genle ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo char-acer o seeing him as he propheic and oen radical Chrisian visionaryha he was I wan people o discover and rediscover Dr Kingrsquos ldquoLeter fromBirmingham Jailrdquo as a message encompassing his holisic vision of hegospel lived ou in everyday life
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POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
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QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
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Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
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Read Up
V o l u m e 1
Get the
Conversation
Started
book Selections
amp Questions for
reading groups
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Dear Fellow Reader
Reading is a soliary ac For many o us i is a orm o rerea991252a welcomedsilence and deserved res om our demanding rouines We have our avoriespo in he house he unmade bed he couch long enough o doze on ormaybe he off-limis living room Wherever i is when we are here wih bookin hand and maybe our avorie cup o ea (my avorie is anyhing peach) allwho encouner us know o ldquoshushrdquo Irsquos reading ime
Bu when you read a really good book arenrsquo you jus dying o alk abou i
Halway hrough or maybe even in he inroducion who comes o mindTerersquos always someone we canrsquo wai o share our newound knowledge wihor ell o our disbelie o an auhorrsquos opinion We can agree or disagree wihhe auhor and he or she is none he wiser Bu our dear ellow reader isalways eager o hear our perspecive Or a leas we hope so
In reading groups we donrsquo have o hope someone wans o hear our opinions991252irsquos expeced And even beter he idea or concep ha we missed in our
reading is ofen wha our ellow readers will discover and share wih us Ourldquoahardquo momens are muliplied in conversaion Even in disagreemen991252maybe especially when we disagree991252here is opporuniy o learn om oneanoher as we seek o undersand differen poins o view
In he end our shared conversaion becomes anoher welcomed respie as we glean wisdom and receive undersanding om one anoher My hope is hahe diverse assormen o iles in his firs volume o Read Up will provide
you and your group wih books ha lead o boh simulaing reading andmeaningul conversaion
Read up
Lorraine Caulon
Edior Read Up
PS Visi ivpresscomreadup o view our new Reading Group page
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CONTENTS
Birmingham Revolution 8
Breaking Old Rhythms 12
Coffee with Jesus 16
Courage and Calling 20
Culture Making 22
Disunity in Christ 24
The Easy Burden of Pleasing God 26
Eat with Joy 28
Exposing Myths About Christianity 30
A Free Peoplersquos Suicide 32
The Girl in the Orange Dress 34
The Global Public Square 36
God Behaving Badly 38
The God-Shaped Brain 40
Holy Is the Day 42
In Search of Deep Faith 44
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 46
The Language of Science and Faith 50
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A Mind for God 52
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes 54
Playing God 56
Popcultured 58
Reconciling All Things 62
Sensible Shoes 66
The Singer 70
Surrender to Love 74
Table in the Darkness 76
Troubled Minds 80
Undone 82
An Unhurried Life 84
The Unkingdom of God 86
Wanting to Be Her 88
A Week in the Life of Corinth 90
The World Is Not Ours to Save 92
Leading a Book Discussion 94
Connect with Us 96
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ldquoYou can never ge a cup o ea large enough
or a book long enough o sui merdquo
C S LEWIS
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BIRMINGHAM REVOLUTION
Martin Luther King Jrrsquos Epic
Challenge to the Church
Edward Gilbreath
Dr Marin Luher King Jrrsquos words and hisoriceffors as he Moses of his civil righsmovemen sand ou as perhaps he mos sig-nifican insance of a modern Chrisian leaderacing in a propheic role o insigae poliical
change In many ways ldquoTe Leter from Birmingham Jailrdquo sands a hecener of ha movemen In his book African American journalisEdward Gilbreah explores he place of ha leter in he life and work ofDr King
Birmingham Revoluion is no simply a work of hisorical reflecion Gil- breah encourages us o reflec on he relevance of Kingrsquos work for hechurch and culure of our day Wheher irsquos in debaes abou immi-
graion economic redisribuion or presidenial birh cerificaes raceconinues o play a role in shaping sociey Wha par will he churchplay in he ongoing sruggle
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Gilbreah is he auhor ofReconciliaion Blues A Black Evangelicalrsquos Inside View o WhieChrisianiy An award-winning journalis he serves as an ediora large for Chrisianiy oday magazine and as he execuive di-recor of communicaions for he Evangelical Covenan Church
ldquoTe calling o a prophe is a glorious burden Te propheic voice o Marin Luher King is as needed by he church oday as i was hal a cenury ago Edward Gilbreah allows us o hear i wih deph and powerrdquo
John Orberg senior pasor of Menlo Park Presbyerian Church and auhor of Who
Is Tis Man
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QUESTIONS
1048625 On page 10486251048626 Gilbreah assers ha ldquohe idea of race is so enrenchedin our hinking ha irsquos almos impossible o imagine no seeing he
world hrough a racialized lensrdquo Do you agree Why or why no1048626 According o one Chrisian leader Marin Luher King Jrrsquos ldquoLeter
from Birmingham Jailrdquo suggess ha he figh for social jusice is ldquoanessenial mark of he gospelrdquo (p 10486251048631) How does he idea of jusice fiino your undersanding of he Chrisian gospel
1048627 Chaper 1048626 feaures foureen key hemes and experiences ha shapedMarin Luher King Jrrsquos early life Which one surprised you he
mos1048628 In chaper 1048627 pasor Rober Graez said he civil righs movemen
was a church movemen (pp 10486291048624-10486291048625) Do you hink people overlookhis fac Wha would he movemen have looked like wihou heinvolvemen of he church
1048629 Te circumsances ha preceded Dr Kingrsquos arres in Birminghamon Good Friday almos derailed he movemen According o King
he had o ldquomake a faih acrdquo (p 10486311048624) Wha do he evens in room 10486271048624of he Gason Moel ell us abou Kingrsquos undersanding of faih
983094 According o one scholar ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo repre-sened ldquoa culminaion of all of Kingrsquos ideas heology experiencesand civil righs acicsrdquo (p 104862510486241048631) How do you see all of hese hingscoming o bear in Kingrsquos leter
1048631 Chaper 10486251048625 explores how our percepions of Dr King have become
disored over he years Before reading his book wha was yourpercepion of King Wha is i now
983096 Birmingham naive Diane McWhorer observes ha many Birming-hamians have ried o go from ldquoamnesiardquo o ldquoclosurerdquo regarding heirciyrsquos hisory (p 104862510486291048629) ldquoYou canrsquo go around irdquo she says ldquoYou mus gohrough irdquo Wha does i mean o ldquogo hroughrdquo our difficul hisory
983097 In he epilogue (pp 10486259830941048631-983094983097) Gilbreah offers four concluding ideas
abou Dr King and he Birmingham revoluion (1048625) know where your power comes from (1048626) embrace your inner Shutlesworh (1048627)le no man despise your youh (1048628) live your leter Wha migh heseideas look like in your personal faih journey
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Conversation with Edward Gilbreath
Counless books and aricles have been writen abou Marin LuherKing Jr over he years Wha inspired you o share anoher perspecive
on King in Birmingham Revolution
Edward Gilbreah Terersquos a muliude of books abou King and he civilrighs movemen bu I fel compelled o ell he sory from he perspeciveof an African American evangelical who was born a year aer Dr Kingrsquos deahMany people from my generaion and younger donrsquo always have a full picure
of who King really was991252his courage his radicalism his faih his humaniy I waned o shed ligh on hese aspecs of King and above all show he churchha everyhing he did was driven by his Chrisian faih and values
Wha was significan abou Birmingham as a sage for he civil
righs movemen
Edward In 98308910486331048630983091 Birmingham Alabama was one of he mos noorioussrongholds of segregaion and whie supremacy in he Souh I was a place
described by King as ldquohe mos horoughly segregaed ciy in he UniedSaesrdquo No only were he public insiuions such as libraries segregaed
bu i was so severe ha even books ha conained phoos of black rabbisand whie rabbis ogeher were banned from he library shelves I was aciy where bulles bombs and burning crosses served as consan deerrenso blacks who aspired o anyhing greaer han heir assigned saion of in-equaliy Rev Fred Shutlesworh a fiery Bapis preacher in Birminghamhad implored King and his Souhern Chrisian Leadership Conference as-sociaes o come o Birmingham and help he ciyrsquos black communiy con-fron segregaion He old hem ldquoI assure you if you come o Birmingham
we will no only gain presige bu really shake he counryrdquo He knew ha ifhe movemen could change hings in Birmingham i would reverberaehroughou he naion
Wha was he significance of Kingrsquos ldquoLeter from Birminghamrdquo
Edward Te Birmingham campaign sared ou slowly bu aer King wasarresed on Good Friday for his movemenrsquos public demonsraion on hesrees of Birmingham hings began o change While in soliary con-finemen he was shown a newspaper op-ed column by eigh moderae
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clergymen in Birmingham Tey implored him o wai for he laws o akeeffec Bu King believed he black communiy had waied long enoughhey needed o ake a sand and sir he conscience of Birmingham and ofhe naion His response o he op-ed was a passionae leter ha spelled ouhe reasons why he movemen couldnrsquo wai and poined ou he differ-ences beween jus and unjus laws He wroe he leter on he margins ofhe newspaper on scraps of any paper he could gaher and when he ran ouhe reporedly wroe on he oile paper in his cell Aer is publicaion
weeks laer he ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo would become one of hemos lucid and convincing argumens for social jusice and civil righs ha
wersquove ever had Wharsquos more i was rooed in he heology and principles
of he Chrisian gospel Why do you hink King was more a ldquopropherdquo of social jusice
Edward Irsquos easy o wan o wrie Dr King off as jus a leader who gave agood speech Bu in doing ha we risk missing he fac ha he was vehe-menly disliked in his day and ha as ime wen on he was becoming in-creasingly angry and impaien wih he pace of change in he naion Laein his life he wroe ldquoWhies are no puting in a mass effor o re-educae
hemselves ou of heir racial ignorancerdquo While he rejeced he miliancy ofhe Black Power movemen he undersood he roos of is membersrsquo dis-conen As a Chrisian miniser and Nobel Peace Prize recipien King alsofel compelled o speak ou agains he Vienam conflic Tis also served oland him on some of Americarsquos ldquomos haedrdquo liss In all hese cases he wasspeaking ou as a prophe of social jusice Bu harsquos ypically no he Kingha we choose o focus on oday
Wha do you hope readers ake away from Birmingham Revolution
Edward I wan people o discover he full humaniy of Dr Marin LuherKing Jr o move beyond viewing him as his genle ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo char-acer o seeing him as he propheic and oen radical Chrisian visionaryha he was I wan people o discover and rediscover Dr Kingrsquos ldquoLeter fromBirmingham Jailrdquo as a message encompassing his holisic vision of hegospel lived ou in everyday life
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POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
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QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
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Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
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Dear Fellow Reader
Reading is a soliary ac For many o us i is a orm o rerea991252a welcomedsilence and deserved res om our demanding rouines We have our avoriespo in he house he unmade bed he couch long enough o doze on ormaybe he off-limis living room Wherever i is when we are here wih bookin hand and maybe our avorie cup o ea (my avorie is anyhing peach) allwho encouner us know o ldquoshushrdquo Irsquos reading ime
Bu when you read a really good book arenrsquo you jus dying o alk abou i
Halway hrough or maybe even in he inroducion who comes o mindTerersquos always someone we canrsquo wai o share our newound knowledge wihor ell o our disbelie o an auhorrsquos opinion We can agree or disagree wihhe auhor and he or she is none he wiser Bu our dear ellow reader isalways eager o hear our perspecive Or a leas we hope so
In reading groups we donrsquo have o hope someone wans o hear our opinions991252irsquos expeced And even beter he idea or concep ha we missed in our
reading is ofen wha our ellow readers will discover and share wih us Ourldquoahardquo momens are muliplied in conversaion Even in disagreemen991252maybe especially when we disagree991252here is opporuniy o learn om oneanoher as we seek o undersand differen poins o view
In he end our shared conversaion becomes anoher welcomed respie as we glean wisdom and receive undersanding om one anoher My hope is hahe diverse assormen o iles in his firs volume o Read Up will provide
you and your group wih books ha lead o boh simulaing reading andmeaningul conversaion
Read up
Lorraine Caulon
Edior Read Up
PS Visi ivpresscomreadup o view our new Reading Group page
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CONTENTS
Birmingham Revolution 8
Breaking Old Rhythms 12
Coffee with Jesus 16
Courage and Calling 20
Culture Making 22
Disunity in Christ 24
The Easy Burden of Pleasing God 26
Eat with Joy 28
Exposing Myths About Christianity 30
A Free Peoplersquos Suicide 32
The Girl in the Orange Dress 34
The Global Public Square 36
God Behaving Badly 38
The God-Shaped Brain 40
Holy Is the Day 42
In Search of Deep Faith 44
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 46
The Language of Science and Faith 50
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A Mind for God 52
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes 54
Playing God 56
Popcultured 58
Reconciling All Things 62
Sensible Shoes 66
The Singer 70
Surrender to Love 74
Table in the Darkness 76
Troubled Minds 80
Undone 82
An Unhurried Life 84
The Unkingdom of God 86
Wanting to Be Her 88
A Week in the Life of Corinth 90
The World Is Not Ours to Save 92
Leading a Book Discussion 94
Connect with Us 96
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ldquoYou can never ge a cup o ea large enough
or a book long enough o sui merdquo
C S LEWIS
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BIRMINGHAM REVOLUTION
Martin Luther King Jrrsquos Epic
Challenge to the Church
Edward Gilbreath
Dr Marin Luher King Jrrsquos words and hisoriceffors as he Moses of his civil righsmovemen sand ou as perhaps he mos sig-nifican insance of a modern Chrisian leaderacing in a propheic role o insigae poliical
change In many ways ldquoTe Leter from Birmingham Jailrdquo sands a hecener of ha movemen In his book African American journalisEdward Gilbreah explores he place of ha leter in he life and work ofDr King
Birmingham Revoluion is no simply a work of hisorical reflecion Gil- breah encourages us o reflec on he relevance of Kingrsquos work for hechurch and culure of our day Wheher irsquos in debaes abou immi-
graion economic redisribuion or presidenial birh cerificaes raceconinues o play a role in shaping sociey Wha par will he churchplay in he ongoing sruggle
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Gilbreah is he auhor ofReconciliaion Blues A Black Evangelicalrsquos Inside View o WhieChrisianiy An award-winning journalis he serves as an ediora large for Chrisianiy oday magazine and as he execuive di-recor of communicaions for he Evangelical Covenan Church
ldquoTe calling o a prophe is a glorious burden Te propheic voice o Marin Luher King is as needed by he church oday as i was hal a cenury ago Edward Gilbreah allows us o hear i wih deph and powerrdquo
John Orberg senior pasor of Menlo Park Presbyerian Church and auhor of Who
Is Tis Man
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QUESTIONS
1048625 On page 10486251048626 Gilbreah assers ha ldquohe idea of race is so enrenchedin our hinking ha irsquos almos impossible o imagine no seeing he
world hrough a racialized lensrdquo Do you agree Why or why no1048626 According o one Chrisian leader Marin Luher King Jrrsquos ldquoLeter
from Birmingham Jailrdquo suggess ha he figh for social jusice is ldquoanessenial mark of he gospelrdquo (p 10486251048631) How does he idea of jusice fiino your undersanding of he Chrisian gospel
1048627 Chaper 1048626 feaures foureen key hemes and experiences ha shapedMarin Luher King Jrrsquos early life Which one surprised you he
mos1048628 In chaper 1048627 pasor Rober Graez said he civil righs movemen
was a church movemen (pp 10486291048624-10486291048625) Do you hink people overlookhis fac Wha would he movemen have looked like wihou heinvolvemen of he church
1048629 Te circumsances ha preceded Dr Kingrsquos arres in Birminghamon Good Friday almos derailed he movemen According o King
he had o ldquomake a faih acrdquo (p 10486311048624) Wha do he evens in room 10486271048624of he Gason Moel ell us abou Kingrsquos undersanding of faih
983094 According o one scholar ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo repre-sened ldquoa culminaion of all of Kingrsquos ideas heology experiencesand civil righs acicsrdquo (p 104862510486241048631) How do you see all of hese hingscoming o bear in Kingrsquos leter
1048631 Chaper 10486251048625 explores how our percepions of Dr King have become
disored over he years Before reading his book wha was yourpercepion of King Wha is i now
983096 Birmingham naive Diane McWhorer observes ha many Birming-hamians have ried o go from ldquoamnesiardquo o ldquoclosurerdquo regarding heirciyrsquos hisory (p 104862510486291048629) ldquoYou canrsquo go around irdquo she says ldquoYou mus gohrough irdquo Wha does i mean o ldquogo hroughrdquo our difficul hisory
983097 In he epilogue (pp 10486259830941048631-983094983097) Gilbreah offers four concluding ideas
abou Dr King and he Birmingham revoluion (1048625) know where your power comes from (1048626) embrace your inner Shutlesworh (1048627)le no man despise your youh (1048628) live your leter Wha migh heseideas look like in your personal faih journey
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Conversation with Edward Gilbreath
Counless books and aricles have been writen abou Marin LuherKing Jr over he years Wha inspired you o share anoher perspecive
on King in Birmingham Revolution
Edward Gilbreah Terersquos a muliude of books abou King and he civilrighs movemen bu I fel compelled o ell he sory from he perspeciveof an African American evangelical who was born a year aer Dr Kingrsquos deahMany people from my generaion and younger donrsquo always have a full picure
of who King really was991252his courage his radicalism his faih his humaniy I waned o shed ligh on hese aspecs of King and above all show he churchha everyhing he did was driven by his Chrisian faih and values
Wha was significan abou Birmingham as a sage for he civil
righs movemen
Edward In 98308910486331048630983091 Birmingham Alabama was one of he mos noorioussrongholds of segregaion and whie supremacy in he Souh I was a place
described by King as ldquohe mos horoughly segregaed ciy in he UniedSaesrdquo No only were he public insiuions such as libraries segregaed
bu i was so severe ha even books ha conained phoos of black rabbisand whie rabbis ogeher were banned from he library shelves I was aciy where bulles bombs and burning crosses served as consan deerrenso blacks who aspired o anyhing greaer han heir assigned saion of in-equaliy Rev Fred Shutlesworh a fiery Bapis preacher in Birminghamhad implored King and his Souhern Chrisian Leadership Conference as-sociaes o come o Birmingham and help he ciyrsquos black communiy con-fron segregaion He old hem ldquoI assure you if you come o Birmingham
we will no only gain presige bu really shake he counryrdquo He knew ha ifhe movemen could change hings in Birmingham i would reverberaehroughou he naion
Wha was he significance of Kingrsquos ldquoLeter from Birminghamrdquo
Edward Te Birmingham campaign sared ou slowly bu aer King wasarresed on Good Friday for his movemenrsquos public demonsraion on hesrees of Birmingham hings began o change While in soliary con-finemen he was shown a newspaper op-ed column by eigh moderae
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11
clergymen in Birmingham Tey implored him o wai for he laws o akeeffec Bu King believed he black communiy had waied long enoughhey needed o ake a sand and sir he conscience of Birmingham and ofhe naion His response o he op-ed was a passionae leter ha spelled ouhe reasons why he movemen couldnrsquo wai and poined ou he differ-ences beween jus and unjus laws He wroe he leter on he margins ofhe newspaper on scraps of any paper he could gaher and when he ran ouhe reporedly wroe on he oile paper in his cell Aer is publicaion
weeks laer he ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo would become one of hemos lucid and convincing argumens for social jusice and civil righs ha
wersquove ever had Wharsquos more i was rooed in he heology and principles
of he Chrisian gospel Why do you hink King was more a ldquopropherdquo of social jusice
Edward Irsquos easy o wan o wrie Dr King off as jus a leader who gave agood speech Bu in doing ha we risk missing he fac ha he was vehe-menly disliked in his day and ha as ime wen on he was becoming in-creasingly angry and impaien wih he pace of change in he naion Laein his life he wroe ldquoWhies are no puting in a mass effor o re-educae
hemselves ou of heir racial ignorancerdquo While he rejeced he miliancy ofhe Black Power movemen he undersood he roos of is membersrsquo dis-conen As a Chrisian miniser and Nobel Peace Prize recipien King alsofel compelled o speak ou agains he Vienam conflic Tis also served oland him on some of Americarsquos ldquomos haedrdquo liss In all hese cases he wasspeaking ou as a prophe of social jusice Bu harsquos ypically no he Kingha we choose o focus on oday
Wha do you hope readers ake away from Birmingham Revolution
Edward I wan people o discover he full humaniy of Dr Marin LuherKing Jr o move beyond viewing him as his genle ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo char-acer o seeing him as he propheic and oen radical Chrisian visionaryha he was I wan people o discover and rediscover Dr Kingrsquos ldquoLeter fromBirmingham Jailrdquo as a message encompassing his holisic vision of hegospel lived ou in everyday life
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POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
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QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
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61
Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
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Dear Fellow Reader
Reading is a soliary ac For many o us i is a orm o rerea991252a welcomedsilence and deserved res om our demanding rouines We have our avoriespo in he house he unmade bed he couch long enough o doze on ormaybe he off-limis living room Wherever i is when we are here wih bookin hand and maybe our avorie cup o ea (my avorie is anyhing peach) allwho encouner us know o ldquoshushrdquo Irsquos reading ime
Bu when you read a really good book arenrsquo you jus dying o alk abou i
Halway hrough or maybe even in he inroducion who comes o mindTerersquos always someone we canrsquo wai o share our newound knowledge wihor ell o our disbelie o an auhorrsquos opinion We can agree or disagree wihhe auhor and he or she is none he wiser Bu our dear ellow reader isalways eager o hear our perspecive Or a leas we hope so
In reading groups we donrsquo have o hope someone wans o hear our opinions991252irsquos expeced And even beter he idea or concep ha we missed in our
reading is ofen wha our ellow readers will discover and share wih us Ourldquoahardquo momens are muliplied in conversaion Even in disagreemen991252maybe especially when we disagree991252here is opporuniy o learn om oneanoher as we seek o undersand differen poins o view
In he end our shared conversaion becomes anoher welcomed respie as we glean wisdom and receive undersanding om one anoher My hope is hahe diverse assormen o iles in his firs volume o Read Up will provide
you and your group wih books ha lead o boh simulaing reading andmeaningul conversaion
Read up
Lorraine Caulon
Edior Read Up
PS Visi ivpresscomreadup o view our new Reading Group page
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CONTENTS
Birmingham Revolution 8
Breaking Old Rhythms 12
Coffee with Jesus 16
Courage and Calling 20
Culture Making 22
Disunity in Christ 24
The Easy Burden of Pleasing God 26
Eat with Joy 28
Exposing Myths About Christianity 30
A Free Peoplersquos Suicide 32
The Girl in the Orange Dress 34
The Global Public Square 36
God Behaving Badly 38
The God-Shaped Brain 40
Holy Is the Day 42
In Search of Deep Faith 44
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 46
The Language of Science and Faith 50
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A Mind for God 52
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes 54
Playing God 56
Popcultured 58
Reconciling All Things 62
Sensible Shoes 66
The Singer 70
Surrender to Love 74
Table in the Darkness 76
Troubled Minds 80
Undone 82
An Unhurried Life 84
The Unkingdom of God 86
Wanting to Be Her 88
A Week in the Life of Corinth 90
The World Is Not Ours to Save 92
Leading a Book Discussion 94
Connect with Us 96
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ldquoYou can never ge a cup o ea large enough
or a book long enough o sui merdquo
C S LEWIS
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BIRMINGHAM REVOLUTION
Martin Luther King Jrrsquos Epic
Challenge to the Church
Edward Gilbreath
Dr Marin Luher King Jrrsquos words and hisoriceffors as he Moses of his civil righsmovemen sand ou as perhaps he mos sig-nifican insance of a modern Chrisian leaderacing in a propheic role o insigae poliical
change In many ways ldquoTe Leter from Birmingham Jailrdquo sands a hecener of ha movemen In his book African American journalisEdward Gilbreah explores he place of ha leter in he life and work ofDr King
Birmingham Revoluion is no simply a work of hisorical reflecion Gil- breah encourages us o reflec on he relevance of Kingrsquos work for hechurch and culure of our day Wheher irsquos in debaes abou immi-
graion economic redisribuion or presidenial birh cerificaes raceconinues o play a role in shaping sociey Wha par will he churchplay in he ongoing sruggle
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Gilbreah is he auhor ofReconciliaion Blues A Black Evangelicalrsquos Inside View o WhieChrisianiy An award-winning journalis he serves as an ediora large for Chrisianiy oday magazine and as he execuive di-recor of communicaions for he Evangelical Covenan Church
ldquoTe calling o a prophe is a glorious burden Te propheic voice o Marin Luher King is as needed by he church oday as i was hal a cenury ago Edward Gilbreah allows us o hear i wih deph and powerrdquo
John Orberg senior pasor of Menlo Park Presbyerian Church and auhor of Who
Is Tis Man
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QUESTIONS
1048625 On page 10486251048626 Gilbreah assers ha ldquohe idea of race is so enrenchedin our hinking ha irsquos almos impossible o imagine no seeing he
world hrough a racialized lensrdquo Do you agree Why or why no1048626 According o one Chrisian leader Marin Luher King Jrrsquos ldquoLeter
from Birmingham Jailrdquo suggess ha he figh for social jusice is ldquoanessenial mark of he gospelrdquo (p 10486251048631) How does he idea of jusice fiino your undersanding of he Chrisian gospel
1048627 Chaper 1048626 feaures foureen key hemes and experiences ha shapedMarin Luher King Jrrsquos early life Which one surprised you he
mos1048628 In chaper 1048627 pasor Rober Graez said he civil righs movemen
was a church movemen (pp 10486291048624-10486291048625) Do you hink people overlookhis fac Wha would he movemen have looked like wihou heinvolvemen of he church
1048629 Te circumsances ha preceded Dr Kingrsquos arres in Birminghamon Good Friday almos derailed he movemen According o King
he had o ldquomake a faih acrdquo (p 10486311048624) Wha do he evens in room 10486271048624of he Gason Moel ell us abou Kingrsquos undersanding of faih
983094 According o one scholar ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo repre-sened ldquoa culminaion of all of Kingrsquos ideas heology experiencesand civil righs acicsrdquo (p 104862510486241048631) How do you see all of hese hingscoming o bear in Kingrsquos leter
1048631 Chaper 10486251048625 explores how our percepions of Dr King have become
disored over he years Before reading his book wha was yourpercepion of King Wha is i now
983096 Birmingham naive Diane McWhorer observes ha many Birming-hamians have ried o go from ldquoamnesiardquo o ldquoclosurerdquo regarding heirciyrsquos hisory (p 104862510486291048629) ldquoYou canrsquo go around irdquo she says ldquoYou mus gohrough irdquo Wha does i mean o ldquogo hroughrdquo our difficul hisory
983097 In he epilogue (pp 10486259830941048631-983094983097) Gilbreah offers four concluding ideas
abou Dr King and he Birmingham revoluion (1048625) know where your power comes from (1048626) embrace your inner Shutlesworh (1048627)le no man despise your youh (1048628) live your leter Wha migh heseideas look like in your personal faih journey
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Conversation with Edward Gilbreath
Counless books and aricles have been writen abou Marin LuherKing Jr over he years Wha inspired you o share anoher perspecive
on King in Birmingham Revolution
Edward Gilbreah Terersquos a muliude of books abou King and he civilrighs movemen bu I fel compelled o ell he sory from he perspeciveof an African American evangelical who was born a year aer Dr Kingrsquos deahMany people from my generaion and younger donrsquo always have a full picure
of who King really was991252his courage his radicalism his faih his humaniy I waned o shed ligh on hese aspecs of King and above all show he churchha everyhing he did was driven by his Chrisian faih and values
Wha was significan abou Birmingham as a sage for he civil
righs movemen
Edward In 98308910486331048630983091 Birmingham Alabama was one of he mos noorioussrongholds of segregaion and whie supremacy in he Souh I was a place
described by King as ldquohe mos horoughly segregaed ciy in he UniedSaesrdquo No only were he public insiuions such as libraries segregaed
bu i was so severe ha even books ha conained phoos of black rabbisand whie rabbis ogeher were banned from he library shelves I was aciy where bulles bombs and burning crosses served as consan deerrenso blacks who aspired o anyhing greaer han heir assigned saion of in-equaliy Rev Fred Shutlesworh a fiery Bapis preacher in Birminghamhad implored King and his Souhern Chrisian Leadership Conference as-sociaes o come o Birmingham and help he ciyrsquos black communiy con-fron segregaion He old hem ldquoI assure you if you come o Birmingham
we will no only gain presige bu really shake he counryrdquo He knew ha ifhe movemen could change hings in Birmingham i would reverberaehroughou he naion
Wha was he significance of Kingrsquos ldquoLeter from Birminghamrdquo
Edward Te Birmingham campaign sared ou slowly bu aer King wasarresed on Good Friday for his movemenrsquos public demonsraion on hesrees of Birmingham hings began o change While in soliary con-finemen he was shown a newspaper op-ed column by eigh moderae
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11
clergymen in Birmingham Tey implored him o wai for he laws o akeeffec Bu King believed he black communiy had waied long enoughhey needed o ake a sand and sir he conscience of Birmingham and ofhe naion His response o he op-ed was a passionae leter ha spelled ouhe reasons why he movemen couldnrsquo wai and poined ou he differ-ences beween jus and unjus laws He wroe he leter on he margins ofhe newspaper on scraps of any paper he could gaher and when he ran ouhe reporedly wroe on he oile paper in his cell Aer is publicaion
weeks laer he ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo would become one of hemos lucid and convincing argumens for social jusice and civil righs ha
wersquove ever had Wharsquos more i was rooed in he heology and principles
of he Chrisian gospel Why do you hink King was more a ldquopropherdquo of social jusice
Edward Irsquos easy o wan o wrie Dr King off as jus a leader who gave agood speech Bu in doing ha we risk missing he fac ha he was vehe-menly disliked in his day and ha as ime wen on he was becoming in-creasingly angry and impaien wih he pace of change in he naion Laein his life he wroe ldquoWhies are no puting in a mass effor o re-educae
hemselves ou of heir racial ignorancerdquo While he rejeced he miliancy ofhe Black Power movemen he undersood he roos of is membersrsquo dis-conen As a Chrisian miniser and Nobel Peace Prize recipien King alsofel compelled o speak ou agains he Vienam conflic Tis also served oland him on some of Americarsquos ldquomos haedrdquo liss In all hese cases he wasspeaking ou as a prophe of social jusice Bu harsquos ypically no he Kingha we choose o focus on oday
Wha do you hope readers ake away from Birmingham Revolution
Edward I wan people o discover he full humaniy of Dr Marin LuherKing Jr o move beyond viewing him as his genle ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo char-acer o seeing him as he propheic and oen radical Chrisian visionaryha he was I wan people o discover and rediscover Dr Kingrsquos ldquoLeter fromBirmingham Jailrdquo as a message encompassing his holisic vision of hegospel lived ou in everyday life
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POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
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QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
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61
Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
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CONTENTS
Birmingham Revolution 8
Breaking Old Rhythms 12
Coffee with Jesus 16
Courage and Calling 20
Culture Making 22
Disunity in Christ 24
The Easy Burden of Pleasing God 26
Eat with Joy 28
Exposing Myths About Christianity 30
A Free Peoplersquos Suicide 32
The Girl in the Orange Dress 34
The Global Public Square 36
God Behaving Badly 38
The God-Shaped Brain 40
Holy Is the Day 42
In Search of Deep Faith 44
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 46
The Language of Science and Faith 50
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A Mind for God 52
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes 54
Playing God 56
Popcultured 58
Reconciling All Things 62
Sensible Shoes 66
The Singer 70
Surrender to Love 74
Table in the Darkness 76
Troubled Minds 80
Undone 82
An Unhurried Life 84
The Unkingdom of God 86
Wanting to Be Her 88
A Week in the Life of Corinth 90
The World Is Not Ours to Save 92
Leading a Book Discussion 94
Connect with Us 96
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ldquoYou can never ge a cup o ea large enough
or a book long enough o sui merdquo
C S LEWIS
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BIRMINGHAM REVOLUTION
Martin Luther King Jrrsquos Epic
Challenge to the Church
Edward Gilbreath
Dr Marin Luher King Jrrsquos words and hisoriceffors as he Moses of his civil righsmovemen sand ou as perhaps he mos sig-nifican insance of a modern Chrisian leaderacing in a propheic role o insigae poliical
change In many ways ldquoTe Leter from Birmingham Jailrdquo sands a hecener of ha movemen In his book African American journalisEdward Gilbreah explores he place of ha leter in he life and work ofDr King
Birmingham Revoluion is no simply a work of hisorical reflecion Gil- breah encourages us o reflec on he relevance of Kingrsquos work for hechurch and culure of our day Wheher irsquos in debaes abou immi-
graion economic redisribuion or presidenial birh cerificaes raceconinues o play a role in shaping sociey Wha par will he churchplay in he ongoing sruggle
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Gilbreah is he auhor ofReconciliaion Blues A Black Evangelicalrsquos Inside View o WhieChrisianiy An award-winning journalis he serves as an ediora large for Chrisianiy oday magazine and as he execuive di-recor of communicaions for he Evangelical Covenan Church
ldquoTe calling o a prophe is a glorious burden Te propheic voice o Marin Luher King is as needed by he church oday as i was hal a cenury ago Edward Gilbreah allows us o hear i wih deph and powerrdquo
John Orberg senior pasor of Menlo Park Presbyerian Church and auhor of Who
Is Tis Man
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QUESTIONS
1048625 On page 10486251048626 Gilbreah assers ha ldquohe idea of race is so enrenchedin our hinking ha irsquos almos impossible o imagine no seeing he
world hrough a racialized lensrdquo Do you agree Why or why no1048626 According o one Chrisian leader Marin Luher King Jrrsquos ldquoLeter
from Birmingham Jailrdquo suggess ha he figh for social jusice is ldquoanessenial mark of he gospelrdquo (p 10486251048631) How does he idea of jusice fiino your undersanding of he Chrisian gospel
1048627 Chaper 1048626 feaures foureen key hemes and experiences ha shapedMarin Luher King Jrrsquos early life Which one surprised you he
mos1048628 In chaper 1048627 pasor Rober Graez said he civil righs movemen
was a church movemen (pp 10486291048624-10486291048625) Do you hink people overlookhis fac Wha would he movemen have looked like wihou heinvolvemen of he church
1048629 Te circumsances ha preceded Dr Kingrsquos arres in Birminghamon Good Friday almos derailed he movemen According o King
he had o ldquomake a faih acrdquo (p 10486311048624) Wha do he evens in room 10486271048624of he Gason Moel ell us abou Kingrsquos undersanding of faih
983094 According o one scholar ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo repre-sened ldquoa culminaion of all of Kingrsquos ideas heology experiencesand civil righs acicsrdquo (p 104862510486241048631) How do you see all of hese hingscoming o bear in Kingrsquos leter
1048631 Chaper 10486251048625 explores how our percepions of Dr King have become
disored over he years Before reading his book wha was yourpercepion of King Wha is i now
983096 Birmingham naive Diane McWhorer observes ha many Birming-hamians have ried o go from ldquoamnesiardquo o ldquoclosurerdquo regarding heirciyrsquos hisory (p 104862510486291048629) ldquoYou canrsquo go around irdquo she says ldquoYou mus gohrough irdquo Wha does i mean o ldquogo hroughrdquo our difficul hisory
983097 In he epilogue (pp 10486259830941048631-983094983097) Gilbreah offers four concluding ideas
abou Dr King and he Birmingham revoluion (1048625) know where your power comes from (1048626) embrace your inner Shutlesworh (1048627)le no man despise your youh (1048628) live your leter Wha migh heseideas look like in your personal faih journey
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Conversation with Edward Gilbreath
Counless books and aricles have been writen abou Marin LuherKing Jr over he years Wha inspired you o share anoher perspecive
on King in Birmingham Revolution
Edward Gilbreah Terersquos a muliude of books abou King and he civilrighs movemen bu I fel compelled o ell he sory from he perspeciveof an African American evangelical who was born a year aer Dr Kingrsquos deahMany people from my generaion and younger donrsquo always have a full picure
of who King really was991252his courage his radicalism his faih his humaniy I waned o shed ligh on hese aspecs of King and above all show he churchha everyhing he did was driven by his Chrisian faih and values
Wha was significan abou Birmingham as a sage for he civil
righs movemen
Edward In 98308910486331048630983091 Birmingham Alabama was one of he mos noorioussrongholds of segregaion and whie supremacy in he Souh I was a place
described by King as ldquohe mos horoughly segregaed ciy in he UniedSaesrdquo No only were he public insiuions such as libraries segregaed
bu i was so severe ha even books ha conained phoos of black rabbisand whie rabbis ogeher were banned from he library shelves I was aciy where bulles bombs and burning crosses served as consan deerrenso blacks who aspired o anyhing greaer han heir assigned saion of in-equaliy Rev Fred Shutlesworh a fiery Bapis preacher in Birminghamhad implored King and his Souhern Chrisian Leadership Conference as-sociaes o come o Birmingham and help he ciyrsquos black communiy con-fron segregaion He old hem ldquoI assure you if you come o Birmingham
we will no only gain presige bu really shake he counryrdquo He knew ha ifhe movemen could change hings in Birmingham i would reverberaehroughou he naion
Wha was he significance of Kingrsquos ldquoLeter from Birminghamrdquo
Edward Te Birmingham campaign sared ou slowly bu aer King wasarresed on Good Friday for his movemenrsquos public demonsraion on hesrees of Birmingham hings began o change While in soliary con-finemen he was shown a newspaper op-ed column by eigh moderae
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11
clergymen in Birmingham Tey implored him o wai for he laws o akeeffec Bu King believed he black communiy had waied long enoughhey needed o ake a sand and sir he conscience of Birmingham and ofhe naion His response o he op-ed was a passionae leter ha spelled ouhe reasons why he movemen couldnrsquo wai and poined ou he differ-ences beween jus and unjus laws He wroe he leter on he margins ofhe newspaper on scraps of any paper he could gaher and when he ran ouhe reporedly wroe on he oile paper in his cell Aer is publicaion
weeks laer he ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo would become one of hemos lucid and convincing argumens for social jusice and civil righs ha
wersquove ever had Wharsquos more i was rooed in he heology and principles
of he Chrisian gospel Why do you hink King was more a ldquopropherdquo of social jusice
Edward Irsquos easy o wan o wrie Dr King off as jus a leader who gave agood speech Bu in doing ha we risk missing he fac ha he was vehe-menly disliked in his day and ha as ime wen on he was becoming in-creasingly angry and impaien wih he pace of change in he naion Laein his life he wroe ldquoWhies are no puting in a mass effor o re-educae
hemselves ou of heir racial ignorancerdquo While he rejeced he miliancy ofhe Black Power movemen he undersood he roos of is membersrsquo dis-conen As a Chrisian miniser and Nobel Peace Prize recipien King alsofel compelled o speak ou agains he Vienam conflic Tis also served oland him on some of Americarsquos ldquomos haedrdquo liss In all hese cases he wasspeaking ou as a prophe of social jusice Bu harsquos ypically no he Kingha we choose o focus on oday
Wha do you hope readers ake away from Birmingham Revolution
Edward I wan people o discover he full humaniy of Dr Marin LuherKing Jr o move beyond viewing him as his genle ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo char-acer o seeing him as he propheic and oen radical Chrisian visionaryha he was I wan people o discover and rediscover Dr Kingrsquos ldquoLeter fromBirmingham Jailrdquo as a message encompassing his holisic vision of hegospel lived ou in everyday life
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POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
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QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
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Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
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A Mind for God 52
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes 54
Playing God 56
Popcultured 58
Reconciling All Things 62
Sensible Shoes 66
The Singer 70
Surrender to Love 74
Table in the Darkness 76
Troubled Minds 80
Undone 82
An Unhurried Life 84
The Unkingdom of God 86
Wanting to Be Her 88
A Week in the Life of Corinth 90
The World Is Not Ours to Save 92
Leading a Book Discussion 94
Connect with Us 96
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ldquoYou can never ge a cup o ea large enough
or a book long enough o sui merdquo
C S LEWIS
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BIRMINGHAM REVOLUTION
Martin Luther King Jrrsquos Epic
Challenge to the Church
Edward Gilbreath
Dr Marin Luher King Jrrsquos words and hisoriceffors as he Moses of his civil righsmovemen sand ou as perhaps he mos sig-nifican insance of a modern Chrisian leaderacing in a propheic role o insigae poliical
change In many ways ldquoTe Leter from Birmingham Jailrdquo sands a hecener of ha movemen In his book African American journalisEdward Gilbreah explores he place of ha leter in he life and work ofDr King
Birmingham Revoluion is no simply a work of hisorical reflecion Gil- breah encourages us o reflec on he relevance of Kingrsquos work for hechurch and culure of our day Wheher irsquos in debaes abou immi-
graion economic redisribuion or presidenial birh cerificaes raceconinues o play a role in shaping sociey Wha par will he churchplay in he ongoing sruggle
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Gilbreah is he auhor ofReconciliaion Blues A Black Evangelicalrsquos Inside View o WhieChrisianiy An award-winning journalis he serves as an ediora large for Chrisianiy oday magazine and as he execuive di-recor of communicaions for he Evangelical Covenan Church
ldquoTe calling o a prophe is a glorious burden Te propheic voice o Marin Luher King is as needed by he church oday as i was hal a cenury ago Edward Gilbreah allows us o hear i wih deph and powerrdquo
John Orberg senior pasor of Menlo Park Presbyerian Church and auhor of Who
Is Tis Man
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8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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QUESTIONS
1048625 On page 10486251048626 Gilbreah assers ha ldquohe idea of race is so enrenchedin our hinking ha irsquos almos impossible o imagine no seeing he
world hrough a racialized lensrdquo Do you agree Why or why no1048626 According o one Chrisian leader Marin Luher King Jrrsquos ldquoLeter
from Birmingham Jailrdquo suggess ha he figh for social jusice is ldquoanessenial mark of he gospelrdquo (p 10486251048631) How does he idea of jusice fiino your undersanding of he Chrisian gospel
1048627 Chaper 1048626 feaures foureen key hemes and experiences ha shapedMarin Luher King Jrrsquos early life Which one surprised you he
mos1048628 In chaper 1048627 pasor Rober Graez said he civil righs movemen
was a church movemen (pp 10486291048624-10486291048625) Do you hink people overlookhis fac Wha would he movemen have looked like wihou heinvolvemen of he church
1048629 Te circumsances ha preceded Dr Kingrsquos arres in Birminghamon Good Friday almos derailed he movemen According o King
he had o ldquomake a faih acrdquo (p 10486311048624) Wha do he evens in room 10486271048624of he Gason Moel ell us abou Kingrsquos undersanding of faih
983094 According o one scholar ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo repre-sened ldquoa culminaion of all of Kingrsquos ideas heology experiencesand civil righs acicsrdquo (p 104862510486241048631) How do you see all of hese hingscoming o bear in Kingrsquos leter
1048631 Chaper 10486251048625 explores how our percepions of Dr King have become
disored over he years Before reading his book wha was yourpercepion of King Wha is i now
983096 Birmingham naive Diane McWhorer observes ha many Birming-hamians have ried o go from ldquoamnesiardquo o ldquoclosurerdquo regarding heirciyrsquos hisory (p 104862510486291048629) ldquoYou canrsquo go around irdquo she says ldquoYou mus gohrough irdquo Wha does i mean o ldquogo hroughrdquo our difficul hisory
983097 In he epilogue (pp 10486259830941048631-983094983097) Gilbreah offers four concluding ideas
abou Dr King and he Birmingham revoluion (1048625) know where your power comes from (1048626) embrace your inner Shutlesworh (1048627)le no man despise your youh (1048628) live your leter Wha migh heseideas look like in your personal faih journey
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Conversation with Edward Gilbreath
Counless books and aricles have been writen abou Marin LuherKing Jr over he years Wha inspired you o share anoher perspecive
on King in Birmingham Revolution
Edward Gilbreah Terersquos a muliude of books abou King and he civilrighs movemen bu I fel compelled o ell he sory from he perspeciveof an African American evangelical who was born a year aer Dr Kingrsquos deahMany people from my generaion and younger donrsquo always have a full picure
of who King really was991252his courage his radicalism his faih his humaniy I waned o shed ligh on hese aspecs of King and above all show he churchha everyhing he did was driven by his Chrisian faih and values
Wha was significan abou Birmingham as a sage for he civil
righs movemen
Edward In 98308910486331048630983091 Birmingham Alabama was one of he mos noorioussrongholds of segregaion and whie supremacy in he Souh I was a place
described by King as ldquohe mos horoughly segregaed ciy in he UniedSaesrdquo No only were he public insiuions such as libraries segregaed
bu i was so severe ha even books ha conained phoos of black rabbisand whie rabbis ogeher were banned from he library shelves I was aciy where bulles bombs and burning crosses served as consan deerrenso blacks who aspired o anyhing greaer han heir assigned saion of in-equaliy Rev Fred Shutlesworh a fiery Bapis preacher in Birminghamhad implored King and his Souhern Chrisian Leadership Conference as-sociaes o come o Birmingham and help he ciyrsquos black communiy con-fron segregaion He old hem ldquoI assure you if you come o Birmingham
we will no only gain presige bu really shake he counryrdquo He knew ha ifhe movemen could change hings in Birmingham i would reverberaehroughou he naion
Wha was he significance of Kingrsquos ldquoLeter from Birminghamrdquo
Edward Te Birmingham campaign sared ou slowly bu aer King wasarresed on Good Friday for his movemenrsquos public demonsraion on hesrees of Birmingham hings began o change While in soliary con-finemen he was shown a newspaper op-ed column by eigh moderae
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11
clergymen in Birmingham Tey implored him o wai for he laws o akeeffec Bu King believed he black communiy had waied long enoughhey needed o ake a sand and sir he conscience of Birmingham and ofhe naion His response o he op-ed was a passionae leter ha spelled ouhe reasons why he movemen couldnrsquo wai and poined ou he differ-ences beween jus and unjus laws He wroe he leter on he margins ofhe newspaper on scraps of any paper he could gaher and when he ran ouhe reporedly wroe on he oile paper in his cell Aer is publicaion
weeks laer he ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo would become one of hemos lucid and convincing argumens for social jusice and civil righs ha
wersquove ever had Wharsquos more i was rooed in he heology and principles
of he Chrisian gospel Why do you hink King was more a ldquopropherdquo of social jusice
Edward Irsquos easy o wan o wrie Dr King off as jus a leader who gave agood speech Bu in doing ha we risk missing he fac ha he was vehe-menly disliked in his day and ha as ime wen on he was becoming in-creasingly angry and impaien wih he pace of change in he naion Laein his life he wroe ldquoWhies are no puting in a mass effor o re-educae
hemselves ou of heir racial ignorancerdquo While he rejeced he miliancy ofhe Black Power movemen he undersood he roos of is membersrsquo dis-conen As a Chrisian miniser and Nobel Peace Prize recipien King alsofel compelled o speak ou agains he Vienam conflic Tis also served oland him on some of Americarsquos ldquomos haedrdquo liss In all hese cases he wasspeaking ou as a prophe of social jusice Bu harsquos ypically no he Kingha we choose o focus on oday
Wha do you hope readers ake away from Birmingham Revolution
Edward I wan people o discover he full humaniy of Dr Marin LuherKing Jr o move beyond viewing him as his genle ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo char-acer o seeing him as he propheic and oen radical Chrisian visionaryha he was I wan people o discover and rediscover Dr Kingrsquos ldquoLeter fromBirmingham Jailrdquo as a message encompassing his holisic vision of hegospel lived ou in everyday life
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POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
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QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
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Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
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ldquoYou can never ge a cup o ea large enough
or a book long enough o sui merdquo
C S LEWIS
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BIRMINGHAM REVOLUTION
Martin Luther King Jrrsquos Epic
Challenge to the Church
Edward Gilbreath
Dr Marin Luher King Jrrsquos words and hisoriceffors as he Moses of his civil righsmovemen sand ou as perhaps he mos sig-nifican insance of a modern Chrisian leaderacing in a propheic role o insigae poliical
change In many ways ldquoTe Leter from Birmingham Jailrdquo sands a hecener of ha movemen In his book African American journalisEdward Gilbreah explores he place of ha leter in he life and work ofDr King
Birmingham Revoluion is no simply a work of hisorical reflecion Gil- breah encourages us o reflec on he relevance of Kingrsquos work for hechurch and culure of our day Wheher irsquos in debaes abou immi-
graion economic redisribuion or presidenial birh cerificaes raceconinues o play a role in shaping sociey Wha par will he churchplay in he ongoing sruggle
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Gilbreah is he auhor ofReconciliaion Blues A Black Evangelicalrsquos Inside View o WhieChrisianiy An award-winning journalis he serves as an ediora large for Chrisianiy oday magazine and as he execuive di-recor of communicaions for he Evangelical Covenan Church
ldquoTe calling o a prophe is a glorious burden Te propheic voice o Marin Luher King is as needed by he church oday as i was hal a cenury ago Edward Gilbreah allows us o hear i wih deph and powerrdquo
John Orberg senior pasor of Menlo Park Presbyerian Church and auhor of Who
Is Tis Man
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QUESTIONS
1048625 On page 10486251048626 Gilbreah assers ha ldquohe idea of race is so enrenchedin our hinking ha irsquos almos impossible o imagine no seeing he
world hrough a racialized lensrdquo Do you agree Why or why no1048626 According o one Chrisian leader Marin Luher King Jrrsquos ldquoLeter
from Birmingham Jailrdquo suggess ha he figh for social jusice is ldquoanessenial mark of he gospelrdquo (p 10486251048631) How does he idea of jusice fiino your undersanding of he Chrisian gospel
1048627 Chaper 1048626 feaures foureen key hemes and experiences ha shapedMarin Luher King Jrrsquos early life Which one surprised you he
mos1048628 In chaper 1048627 pasor Rober Graez said he civil righs movemen
was a church movemen (pp 10486291048624-10486291048625) Do you hink people overlookhis fac Wha would he movemen have looked like wihou heinvolvemen of he church
1048629 Te circumsances ha preceded Dr Kingrsquos arres in Birminghamon Good Friday almos derailed he movemen According o King
he had o ldquomake a faih acrdquo (p 10486311048624) Wha do he evens in room 10486271048624of he Gason Moel ell us abou Kingrsquos undersanding of faih
983094 According o one scholar ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo repre-sened ldquoa culminaion of all of Kingrsquos ideas heology experiencesand civil righs acicsrdquo (p 104862510486241048631) How do you see all of hese hingscoming o bear in Kingrsquos leter
1048631 Chaper 10486251048625 explores how our percepions of Dr King have become
disored over he years Before reading his book wha was yourpercepion of King Wha is i now
983096 Birmingham naive Diane McWhorer observes ha many Birming-hamians have ried o go from ldquoamnesiardquo o ldquoclosurerdquo regarding heirciyrsquos hisory (p 104862510486291048629) ldquoYou canrsquo go around irdquo she says ldquoYou mus gohrough irdquo Wha does i mean o ldquogo hroughrdquo our difficul hisory
983097 In he epilogue (pp 10486259830941048631-983094983097) Gilbreah offers four concluding ideas
abou Dr King and he Birmingham revoluion (1048625) know where your power comes from (1048626) embrace your inner Shutlesworh (1048627)le no man despise your youh (1048628) live your leter Wha migh heseideas look like in your personal faih journey
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Conversation with Edward Gilbreath
Counless books and aricles have been writen abou Marin LuherKing Jr over he years Wha inspired you o share anoher perspecive
on King in Birmingham Revolution
Edward Gilbreah Terersquos a muliude of books abou King and he civilrighs movemen bu I fel compelled o ell he sory from he perspeciveof an African American evangelical who was born a year aer Dr Kingrsquos deahMany people from my generaion and younger donrsquo always have a full picure
of who King really was991252his courage his radicalism his faih his humaniy I waned o shed ligh on hese aspecs of King and above all show he churchha everyhing he did was driven by his Chrisian faih and values
Wha was significan abou Birmingham as a sage for he civil
righs movemen
Edward In 98308910486331048630983091 Birmingham Alabama was one of he mos noorioussrongholds of segregaion and whie supremacy in he Souh I was a place
described by King as ldquohe mos horoughly segregaed ciy in he UniedSaesrdquo No only were he public insiuions such as libraries segregaed
bu i was so severe ha even books ha conained phoos of black rabbisand whie rabbis ogeher were banned from he library shelves I was aciy where bulles bombs and burning crosses served as consan deerrenso blacks who aspired o anyhing greaer han heir assigned saion of in-equaliy Rev Fred Shutlesworh a fiery Bapis preacher in Birminghamhad implored King and his Souhern Chrisian Leadership Conference as-sociaes o come o Birmingham and help he ciyrsquos black communiy con-fron segregaion He old hem ldquoI assure you if you come o Birmingham
we will no only gain presige bu really shake he counryrdquo He knew ha ifhe movemen could change hings in Birmingham i would reverberaehroughou he naion
Wha was he significance of Kingrsquos ldquoLeter from Birminghamrdquo
Edward Te Birmingham campaign sared ou slowly bu aer King wasarresed on Good Friday for his movemenrsquos public demonsraion on hesrees of Birmingham hings began o change While in soliary con-finemen he was shown a newspaper op-ed column by eigh moderae
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11
clergymen in Birmingham Tey implored him o wai for he laws o akeeffec Bu King believed he black communiy had waied long enoughhey needed o ake a sand and sir he conscience of Birmingham and ofhe naion His response o he op-ed was a passionae leter ha spelled ouhe reasons why he movemen couldnrsquo wai and poined ou he differ-ences beween jus and unjus laws He wroe he leter on he margins ofhe newspaper on scraps of any paper he could gaher and when he ran ouhe reporedly wroe on he oile paper in his cell Aer is publicaion
weeks laer he ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo would become one of hemos lucid and convincing argumens for social jusice and civil righs ha
wersquove ever had Wharsquos more i was rooed in he heology and principles
of he Chrisian gospel Why do you hink King was more a ldquopropherdquo of social jusice
Edward Irsquos easy o wan o wrie Dr King off as jus a leader who gave agood speech Bu in doing ha we risk missing he fac ha he was vehe-menly disliked in his day and ha as ime wen on he was becoming in-creasingly angry and impaien wih he pace of change in he naion Laein his life he wroe ldquoWhies are no puting in a mass effor o re-educae
hemselves ou of heir racial ignorancerdquo While he rejeced he miliancy ofhe Black Power movemen he undersood he roos of is membersrsquo dis-conen As a Chrisian miniser and Nobel Peace Prize recipien King alsofel compelled o speak ou agains he Vienam conflic Tis also served oland him on some of Americarsquos ldquomos haedrdquo liss In all hese cases he wasspeaking ou as a prophe of social jusice Bu harsquos ypically no he Kingha we choose o focus on oday
Wha do you hope readers ake away from Birmingham Revolution
Edward I wan people o discover he full humaniy of Dr Marin LuherKing Jr o move beyond viewing him as his genle ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo char-acer o seeing him as he propheic and oen radical Chrisian visionaryha he was I wan people o discover and rediscover Dr Kingrsquos ldquoLeter fromBirmingham Jailrdquo as a message encompassing his holisic vision of hegospel lived ou in everyday life
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POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
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QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
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61
Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
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BIRMINGHAM REVOLUTION
Martin Luther King Jrrsquos Epic
Challenge to the Church
Edward Gilbreath
Dr Marin Luher King Jrrsquos words and hisoriceffors as he Moses of his civil righsmovemen sand ou as perhaps he mos sig-nifican insance of a modern Chrisian leaderacing in a propheic role o insigae poliical
change In many ways ldquoTe Leter from Birmingham Jailrdquo sands a hecener of ha movemen In his book African American journalisEdward Gilbreah explores he place of ha leter in he life and work ofDr King
Birmingham Revoluion is no simply a work of hisorical reflecion Gil- breah encourages us o reflec on he relevance of Kingrsquos work for hechurch and culure of our day Wheher irsquos in debaes abou immi-
graion economic redisribuion or presidenial birh cerificaes raceconinues o play a role in shaping sociey Wha par will he churchplay in he ongoing sruggle
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Gilbreah is he auhor ofReconciliaion Blues A Black Evangelicalrsquos Inside View o WhieChrisianiy An award-winning journalis he serves as an ediora large for Chrisianiy oday magazine and as he execuive di-recor of communicaions for he Evangelical Covenan Church
ldquoTe calling o a prophe is a glorious burden Te propheic voice o Marin Luher King is as needed by he church oday as i was hal a cenury ago Edward Gilbreah allows us o hear i wih deph and powerrdquo
John Orberg senior pasor of Menlo Park Presbyerian Church and auhor of Who
Is Tis Man
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F983151983154 M983151983154983141 C983151983150983158983141983154983155983137983156983145983151983150 S983156983137983154983156983141983154983155 S983141983141 IVPRESSCOMREADUP 9
QUESTIONS
1048625 On page 10486251048626 Gilbreah assers ha ldquohe idea of race is so enrenchedin our hinking ha irsquos almos impossible o imagine no seeing he
world hrough a racialized lensrdquo Do you agree Why or why no1048626 According o one Chrisian leader Marin Luher King Jrrsquos ldquoLeter
from Birmingham Jailrdquo suggess ha he figh for social jusice is ldquoanessenial mark of he gospelrdquo (p 10486251048631) How does he idea of jusice fiino your undersanding of he Chrisian gospel
1048627 Chaper 1048626 feaures foureen key hemes and experiences ha shapedMarin Luher King Jrrsquos early life Which one surprised you he
mos1048628 In chaper 1048627 pasor Rober Graez said he civil righs movemen
was a church movemen (pp 10486291048624-10486291048625) Do you hink people overlookhis fac Wha would he movemen have looked like wihou heinvolvemen of he church
1048629 Te circumsances ha preceded Dr Kingrsquos arres in Birminghamon Good Friday almos derailed he movemen According o King
he had o ldquomake a faih acrdquo (p 10486311048624) Wha do he evens in room 10486271048624of he Gason Moel ell us abou Kingrsquos undersanding of faih
983094 According o one scholar ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo repre-sened ldquoa culminaion of all of Kingrsquos ideas heology experiencesand civil righs acicsrdquo (p 104862510486241048631) How do you see all of hese hingscoming o bear in Kingrsquos leter
1048631 Chaper 10486251048625 explores how our percepions of Dr King have become
disored over he years Before reading his book wha was yourpercepion of King Wha is i now
983096 Birmingham naive Diane McWhorer observes ha many Birming-hamians have ried o go from ldquoamnesiardquo o ldquoclosurerdquo regarding heirciyrsquos hisory (p 104862510486291048629) ldquoYou canrsquo go around irdquo she says ldquoYou mus gohrough irdquo Wha does i mean o ldquogo hroughrdquo our difficul hisory
983097 In he epilogue (pp 10486259830941048631-983094983097) Gilbreah offers four concluding ideas
abou Dr King and he Birmingham revoluion (1048625) know where your power comes from (1048626) embrace your inner Shutlesworh (1048627)le no man despise your youh (1048628) live your leter Wha migh heseideas look like in your personal faih journey
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Conversation with Edward Gilbreath
Counless books and aricles have been writen abou Marin LuherKing Jr over he years Wha inspired you o share anoher perspecive
on King in Birmingham Revolution
Edward Gilbreah Terersquos a muliude of books abou King and he civilrighs movemen bu I fel compelled o ell he sory from he perspeciveof an African American evangelical who was born a year aer Dr Kingrsquos deahMany people from my generaion and younger donrsquo always have a full picure
of who King really was991252his courage his radicalism his faih his humaniy I waned o shed ligh on hese aspecs of King and above all show he churchha everyhing he did was driven by his Chrisian faih and values
Wha was significan abou Birmingham as a sage for he civil
righs movemen
Edward In 98308910486331048630983091 Birmingham Alabama was one of he mos noorioussrongholds of segregaion and whie supremacy in he Souh I was a place
described by King as ldquohe mos horoughly segregaed ciy in he UniedSaesrdquo No only were he public insiuions such as libraries segregaed
bu i was so severe ha even books ha conained phoos of black rabbisand whie rabbis ogeher were banned from he library shelves I was aciy where bulles bombs and burning crosses served as consan deerrenso blacks who aspired o anyhing greaer han heir assigned saion of in-equaliy Rev Fred Shutlesworh a fiery Bapis preacher in Birminghamhad implored King and his Souhern Chrisian Leadership Conference as-sociaes o come o Birmingham and help he ciyrsquos black communiy con-fron segregaion He old hem ldquoI assure you if you come o Birmingham
we will no only gain presige bu really shake he counryrdquo He knew ha ifhe movemen could change hings in Birmingham i would reverberaehroughou he naion
Wha was he significance of Kingrsquos ldquoLeter from Birminghamrdquo
Edward Te Birmingham campaign sared ou slowly bu aer King wasarresed on Good Friday for his movemenrsquos public demonsraion on hesrees of Birmingham hings began o change While in soliary con-finemen he was shown a newspaper op-ed column by eigh moderae
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clergymen in Birmingham Tey implored him o wai for he laws o akeeffec Bu King believed he black communiy had waied long enoughhey needed o ake a sand and sir he conscience of Birmingham and ofhe naion His response o he op-ed was a passionae leter ha spelled ouhe reasons why he movemen couldnrsquo wai and poined ou he differ-ences beween jus and unjus laws He wroe he leter on he margins ofhe newspaper on scraps of any paper he could gaher and when he ran ouhe reporedly wroe on he oile paper in his cell Aer is publicaion
weeks laer he ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo would become one of hemos lucid and convincing argumens for social jusice and civil righs ha
wersquove ever had Wharsquos more i was rooed in he heology and principles
of he Chrisian gospel Why do you hink King was more a ldquopropherdquo of social jusice
Edward Irsquos easy o wan o wrie Dr King off as jus a leader who gave agood speech Bu in doing ha we risk missing he fac ha he was vehe-menly disliked in his day and ha as ime wen on he was becoming in-creasingly angry and impaien wih he pace of change in he naion Laein his life he wroe ldquoWhies are no puting in a mass effor o re-educae
hemselves ou of heir racial ignorancerdquo While he rejeced he miliancy ofhe Black Power movemen he undersood he roos of is membersrsquo dis-conen As a Chrisian miniser and Nobel Peace Prize recipien King alsofel compelled o speak ou agains he Vienam conflic Tis also served oland him on some of Americarsquos ldquomos haedrdquo liss In all hese cases he wasspeaking ou as a prophe of social jusice Bu harsquos ypically no he Kingha we choose o focus on oday
Wha do you hope readers ake away from Birmingham Revolution
Edward I wan people o discover he full humaniy of Dr Marin LuherKing Jr o move beyond viewing him as his genle ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo char-acer o seeing him as he propheic and oen radical Chrisian visionaryha he was I wan people o discover and rediscover Dr Kingrsquos ldquoLeter fromBirmingham Jailrdquo as a message encompassing his holisic vision of hegospel lived ou in everyday life
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POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
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QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
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61
Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
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QUESTIONS
1048625 On page 10486251048626 Gilbreah assers ha ldquohe idea of race is so enrenchedin our hinking ha irsquos almos impossible o imagine no seeing he
world hrough a racialized lensrdquo Do you agree Why or why no1048626 According o one Chrisian leader Marin Luher King Jrrsquos ldquoLeter
from Birmingham Jailrdquo suggess ha he figh for social jusice is ldquoanessenial mark of he gospelrdquo (p 10486251048631) How does he idea of jusice fiino your undersanding of he Chrisian gospel
1048627 Chaper 1048626 feaures foureen key hemes and experiences ha shapedMarin Luher King Jrrsquos early life Which one surprised you he
mos1048628 In chaper 1048627 pasor Rober Graez said he civil righs movemen
was a church movemen (pp 10486291048624-10486291048625) Do you hink people overlookhis fac Wha would he movemen have looked like wihou heinvolvemen of he church
1048629 Te circumsances ha preceded Dr Kingrsquos arres in Birminghamon Good Friday almos derailed he movemen According o King
he had o ldquomake a faih acrdquo (p 10486311048624) Wha do he evens in room 10486271048624of he Gason Moel ell us abou Kingrsquos undersanding of faih
983094 According o one scholar ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo repre-sened ldquoa culminaion of all of Kingrsquos ideas heology experiencesand civil righs acicsrdquo (p 104862510486241048631) How do you see all of hese hingscoming o bear in Kingrsquos leter
1048631 Chaper 10486251048625 explores how our percepions of Dr King have become
disored over he years Before reading his book wha was yourpercepion of King Wha is i now
983096 Birmingham naive Diane McWhorer observes ha many Birming-hamians have ried o go from ldquoamnesiardquo o ldquoclosurerdquo regarding heirciyrsquos hisory (p 104862510486291048629) ldquoYou canrsquo go around irdquo she says ldquoYou mus gohrough irdquo Wha does i mean o ldquogo hroughrdquo our difficul hisory
983097 In he epilogue (pp 10486259830941048631-983094983097) Gilbreah offers four concluding ideas
abou Dr King and he Birmingham revoluion (1048625) know where your power comes from (1048626) embrace your inner Shutlesworh (1048627)le no man despise your youh (1048628) live your leter Wha migh heseideas look like in your personal faih journey
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Conversation with Edward Gilbreath
Counless books and aricles have been writen abou Marin LuherKing Jr over he years Wha inspired you o share anoher perspecive
on King in Birmingham Revolution
Edward Gilbreah Terersquos a muliude of books abou King and he civilrighs movemen bu I fel compelled o ell he sory from he perspeciveof an African American evangelical who was born a year aer Dr Kingrsquos deahMany people from my generaion and younger donrsquo always have a full picure
of who King really was991252his courage his radicalism his faih his humaniy I waned o shed ligh on hese aspecs of King and above all show he churchha everyhing he did was driven by his Chrisian faih and values
Wha was significan abou Birmingham as a sage for he civil
righs movemen
Edward In 98308910486331048630983091 Birmingham Alabama was one of he mos noorioussrongholds of segregaion and whie supremacy in he Souh I was a place
described by King as ldquohe mos horoughly segregaed ciy in he UniedSaesrdquo No only were he public insiuions such as libraries segregaed
bu i was so severe ha even books ha conained phoos of black rabbisand whie rabbis ogeher were banned from he library shelves I was aciy where bulles bombs and burning crosses served as consan deerrenso blacks who aspired o anyhing greaer han heir assigned saion of in-equaliy Rev Fred Shutlesworh a fiery Bapis preacher in Birminghamhad implored King and his Souhern Chrisian Leadership Conference as-sociaes o come o Birmingham and help he ciyrsquos black communiy con-fron segregaion He old hem ldquoI assure you if you come o Birmingham
we will no only gain presige bu really shake he counryrdquo He knew ha ifhe movemen could change hings in Birmingham i would reverberaehroughou he naion
Wha was he significance of Kingrsquos ldquoLeter from Birminghamrdquo
Edward Te Birmingham campaign sared ou slowly bu aer King wasarresed on Good Friday for his movemenrsquos public demonsraion on hesrees of Birmingham hings began o change While in soliary con-finemen he was shown a newspaper op-ed column by eigh moderae
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11
clergymen in Birmingham Tey implored him o wai for he laws o akeeffec Bu King believed he black communiy had waied long enoughhey needed o ake a sand and sir he conscience of Birmingham and ofhe naion His response o he op-ed was a passionae leter ha spelled ouhe reasons why he movemen couldnrsquo wai and poined ou he differ-ences beween jus and unjus laws He wroe he leter on he margins ofhe newspaper on scraps of any paper he could gaher and when he ran ouhe reporedly wroe on he oile paper in his cell Aer is publicaion
weeks laer he ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo would become one of hemos lucid and convincing argumens for social jusice and civil righs ha
wersquove ever had Wharsquos more i was rooed in he heology and principles
of he Chrisian gospel Why do you hink King was more a ldquopropherdquo of social jusice
Edward Irsquos easy o wan o wrie Dr King off as jus a leader who gave agood speech Bu in doing ha we risk missing he fac ha he was vehe-menly disliked in his day and ha as ime wen on he was becoming in-creasingly angry and impaien wih he pace of change in he naion Laein his life he wroe ldquoWhies are no puting in a mass effor o re-educae
hemselves ou of heir racial ignorancerdquo While he rejeced he miliancy ofhe Black Power movemen he undersood he roos of is membersrsquo dis-conen As a Chrisian miniser and Nobel Peace Prize recipien King alsofel compelled o speak ou agains he Vienam conflic Tis also served oland him on some of Americarsquos ldquomos haedrdquo liss In all hese cases he wasspeaking ou as a prophe of social jusice Bu harsquos ypically no he Kingha we choose o focus on oday
Wha do you hope readers ake away from Birmingham Revolution
Edward I wan people o discover he full humaniy of Dr Marin LuherKing Jr o move beyond viewing him as his genle ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo char-acer o seeing him as he propheic and oen radical Chrisian visionaryha he was I wan people o discover and rediscover Dr Kingrsquos ldquoLeter fromBirmingham Jailrdquo as a message encompassing his holisic vision of hegospel lived ou in everyday life
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions
8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
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8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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F983151983154 M983151983154983141 C983151983150983158983141983154983155983137983156983145983151983150 S983156983137983154983156983141983154983155 S983141983141 IVPRESSCOMREADUP 59
QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions
8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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61
Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions
8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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Conversation with Edward Gilbreath
Counless books and aricles have been writen abou Marin LuherKing Jr over he years Wha inspired you o share anoher perspecive
on King in Birmingham Revolution
Edward Gilbreah Terersquos a muliude of books abou King and he civilrighs movemen bu I fel compelled o ell he sory from he perspeciveof an African American evangelical who was born a year aer Dr Kingrsquos deahMany people from my generaion and younger donrsquo always have a full picure
of who King really was991252his courage his radicalism his faih his humaniy I waned o shed ligh on hese aspecs of King and above all show he churchha everyhing he did was driven by his Chrisian faih and values
Wha was significan abou Birmingham as a sage for he civil
righs movemen
Edward In 98308910486331048630983091 Birmingham Alabama was one of he mos noorioussrongholds of segregaion and whie supremacy in he Souh I was a place
described by King as ldquohe mos horoughly segregaed ciy in he UniedSaesrdquo No only were he public insiuions such as libraries segregaed
bu i was so severe ha even books ha conained phoos of black rabbisand whie rabbis ogeher were banned from he library shelves I was aciy where bulles bombs and burning crosses served as consan deerrenso blacks who aspired o anyhing greaer han heir assigned saion of in-equaliy Rev Fred Shutlesworh a fiery Bapis preacher in Birminghamhad implored King and his Souhern Chrisian Leadership Conference as-sociaes o come o Birmingham and help he ciyrsquos black communiy con-fron segregaion He old hem ldquoI assure you if you come o Birmingham
we will no only gain presige bu really shake he counryrdquo He knew ha ifhe movemen could change hings in Birmingham i would reverberaehroughou he naion
Wha was he significance of Kingrsquos ldquoLeter from Birminghamrdquo
Edward Te Birmingham campaign sared ou slowly bu aer King wasarresed on Good Friday for his movemenrsquos public demonsraion on hesrees of Birmingham hings began o change While in soliary con-finemen he was shown a newspaper op-ed column by eigh moderae
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11
clergymen in Birmingham Tey implored him o wai for he laws o akeeffec Bu King believed he black communiy had waied long enoughhey needed o ake a sand and sir he conscience of Birmingham and ofhe naion His response o he op-ed was a passionae leter ha spelled ouhe reasons why he movemen couldnrsquo wai and poined ou he differ-ences beween jus and unjus laws He wroe he leter on he margins ofhe newspaper on scraps of any paper he could gaher and when he ran ouhe reporedly wroe on he oile paper in his cell Aer is publicaion
weeks laer he ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo would become one of hemos lucid and convincing argumens for social jusice and civil righs ha
wersquove ever had Wharsquos more i was rooed in he heology and principles
of he Chrisian gospel Why do you hink King was more a ldquopropherdquo of social jusice
Edward Irsquos easy o wan o wrie Dr King off as jus a leader who gave agood speech Bu in doing ha we risk missing he fac ha he was vehe-menly disliked in his day and ha as ime wen on he was becoming in-creasingly angry and impaien wih he pace of change in he naion Laein his life he wroe ldquoWhies are no puting in a mass effor o re-educae
hemselves ou of heir racial ignorancerdquo While he rejeced he miliancy ofhe Black Power movemen he undersood he roos of is membersrsquo dis-conen As a Chrisian miniser and Nobel Peace Prize recipien King alsofel compelled o speak ou agains he Vienam conflic Tis also served oland him on some of Americarsquos ldquomos haedrdquo liss In all hese cases he wasspeaking ou as a prophe of social jusice Bu harsquos ypically no he Kingha we choose o focus on oday
Wha do you hope readers ake away from Birmingham Revolution
Edward I wan people o discover he full humaniy of Dr Marin LuherKing Jr o move beyond viewing him as his genle ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo char-acer o seeing him as he propheic and oen radical Chrisian visionaryha he was I wan people o discover and rediscover Dr Kingrsquos ldquoLeter fromBirmingham Jailrdquo as a message encompassing his holisic vision of hegospel lived ou in everyday life
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POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
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QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
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61
Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
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11
clergymen in Birmingham Tey implored him o wai for he laws o akeeffec Bu King believed he black communiy had waied long enoughhey needed o ake a sand and sir he conscience of Birmingham and ofhe naion His response o he op-ed was a passionae leter ha spelled ouhe reasons why he movemen couldnrsquo wai and poined ou he differ-ences beween jus and unjus laws He wroe he leter on he margins ofhe newspaper on scraps of any paper he could gaher and when he ran ouhe reporedly wroe on he oile paper in his cell Aer is publicaion
weeks laer he ldquoLeter from Birmingham Jailrdquo would become one of hemos lucid and convincing argumens for social jusice and civil righs ha
wersquove ever had Wharsquos more i was rooed in he heology and principles
of he Chrisian gospel Why do you hink King was more a ldquopropherdquo of social jusice
Edward Irsquos easy o wan o wrie Dr King off as jus a leader who gave agood speech Bu in doing ha we risk missing he fac ha he was vehe-menly disliked in his day and ha as ime wen on he was becoming in-creasingly angry and impaien wih he pace of change in he naion Laein his life he wroe ldquoWhies are no puting in a mass effor o re-educae
hemselves ou of heir racial ignorancerdquo While he rejeced he miliancy ofhe Black Power movemen he undersood he roos of is membersrsquo dis-conen As a Chrisian miniser and Nobel Peace Prize recipien King alsofel compelled o speak ou agains he Vienam conflic Tis also served oland him on some of Americarsquos ldquomos haedrdquo liss In all hese cases he wasspeaking ou as a prophe of social jusice Bu harsquos ypically no he Kingha we choose o focus on oday
Wha do you hope readers ake away from Birmingham Revolution
Edward I wan people o discover he full humaniy of Dr Marin LuherKing Jr o move beyond viewing him as his genle ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo char-acer o seeing him as he propheic and oen radical Chrisian visionaryha he was I wan people o discover and rediscover Dr Kingrsquos ldquoLeter fromBirmingham Jailrdquo as a message encompassing his holisic vision of hegospel lived ou in everyday life
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions
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POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
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8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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F983151983154 M983151983154983141 C983151983150983158983141983154983155983137983156983145983151983150 S983156983137983154983156983141983154983155 S983141983141 IVPRESSCOMREADUP 59
QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
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8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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61
Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions
8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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58 I 983150 983156 983141 983154 V983137 983154 983155 983145 983156 983161 P 983154 983141 983155 983155
POPCULTURED
Thinking Christianly About Style
Media and Entertainment
Steve Turner
Terersquos no avoiding popular culure991252wersquove been enculuraed ino i Wha does i mean o be faihful Chrisians in a pop-culure world
Seve urner has spen his career chroniclingand inerviewing people from he worlds of
music film elevision fashion ar and lieraure Now he provides aninsiderrsquos guide o a wide range of pop-culure genres hrough a Chrisianframework urner explores
bull how movies use redempive narraives and parables
bull ways journalisic headlines convey worldview assumpions
bull differences beween famous people in he pas and celebriies oday
bull how echnology changes our sense of wha is realhis book will help you become a beer culural criic consumerand creaor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Seve urner is a wrier and poeliving in London England where he regularly conribues onewspapers such as Te Mail on Sunday and Te imes His many
books include Conversaions wih Eric Clapon U983090 Ratle and
Hum Van Morrison oo Lae o Sop Now and A Hard Dayrsquos WrieTe Sories Behind Every Beales Song
ldquoSeve urner has proved himsel one o he mos accessible wriers on he in-eracion o aih and culure Popculured is a welcome and lively exploraiono wha is as becoming a crucial fieldrdquo
Jeremy Begbie Duke Universiy auhor of Resounding ruth Christian Wisdom inthe World of Music
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions
8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullread-up-edited-by-lorraine-caulton 1416
F983151983154 M983151983154983141 C983151983150983158983141983154983155983137983156983145983151983150 S983156983137983154983156983141983154983155 S983141983141 IVPRESSCOMREADUP 59
QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions
8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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6 0 I 983150 983156 983141 983154 V983137 983154 983155 983145 983156 983161 P 983154 983141 983155 983155
Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions
8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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61
Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions
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QUESTIONS
1048625 Wha is he mos significan form of popular culure in your life
1048626 Can you hink of atemps by Chrisians o use popular culure hahave le you feeling embarrassed
1048627 How do you disinguish beween much-needed relaxaion and wasing ime
1048628 Wha movie has been genuinely propheic in ha i poined ou aflaw in sociey and challenged viewers o behave differenly
1048629 o wha exen does he media se he agenda for wha people con-
sider o be he imporan issues in heir culure983094 In wha way can fame be seen as a secular form of salvaion
1048631 Wha does he increasing accepance of nudiy ell us abouour culure
983096 Why do we buy designer clohing
983097 Wha are your favorie mehods for coping wih boredom
10486251048624 Do you hink people ever use manufacured exciemen and nonsopenerainmen o avoid confroning he big quesions of life
10486251048625 If irsquos rue ha comedy reveals wha we cherish and wha we despise wha do you hink conemporary comedy ells us abou he valuesof our sociey
10486251048626 Describe an ad ha atraced or repelled you Wha caused ha par-icular reacion
10486251048627 Does social neworking make you more or less hones wih yourldquofriendsrdquo
10486251048628 Tink of wo ways he Inerne has helped improve your spiriual lifeand wo ways i has damaged i
10486251048629 If Jesus had owned a camera wha are some of he hings he mighhave phoographed
1048625983094 Wha one change will you make in your consumpion of pop culure
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Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
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Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
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8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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6 0 I 983150 983156 983141 983154 V983137 983154 983155 983145 983156 983161 P 983154 983141 983155 983155
Conversation with Steve Turner
Wha iniially made you ineresed in sudying he relaionship
beween religion and culure
Sever Turner Irsquos he sory of my life My parens who were boh fromnonreligious families became Chrisians around he ime I was born soI grew up in a srong and enhusiasic Chrisian home A he same imeI was hearing hese oher voices coming from pop culure especially inmy eenage years and i became imporan for me o undersand eachsource of informaion in ligh of he oher I needed o know how he
values and views found in pop culure could be esed agains he Bible
and Chrisian heology and how ideas from he Bible and Chrisian he-ology could sick up for hemselves in popular culure Irsquom sill doing his
How has your career as a journalis shaped he way you view ars
and culure
Seve All my wriing991252as a journalis auhor and poe991252has helped meundersand he creaive process I has helped me idenify wih creaive
people A he same ime i has enabled me o have a fron-row sea amany imporan culural evens and given me access o he people whomake he culure I coun i as a grea privilege o have been able o sidown wih many culure makers and ask hem how and why hey do
wha hey do
You wrie ha ldquopopular culure consanly veers beween au-
henic personal expression and commercial exploiaionrdquo How
do you find he balance And wha combinaion of hose wo
makes popular culure meaningful
Seve I donrsquo hink irsquos a case of finding a balance Terersquos nohing wrong wih a oe-apping une and herersquos nohing wrong wih a deeply confes-sional poem Each has is place Ecclesiases 983091983092 says ha herersquos a ime odance and a ime o mourn If someone is exclusively ino one or heoher you migh sugges ha hey ry somehing new bu generally irsquosgood o find pop culure ha helps us relax and good o find pop culureha helps us hink I hink irsquos a grea achievemen when pop culuremanages o be boh grealy eneraining and profoundly houghful a hesame imeTis happens wih some of George Carlinrsquos comedy a musicallike Les Miseacuterables a film like Amadeus and he songs of he Beales
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions
8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
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61
Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions
8132019 Read Up edited by Lorraine Caulton
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullread-up-edited-by-lorraine-caulton 1616
61
Who has been your favorie creaor of popular culure ha yoursquove
worked wih personally Why
Seve I suppose John Lennon and Paul McCarney I inerviewed John
when I was quie young and i was significan because he had loomedso large in my eenage imaginaion I liked his way wih words he riskshe ook wih his work and he fac ha he consanly challenged receivedopinion Irsquove also inerviewed Paul bu because I was he ghoswrieron Linda McCarneyrsquos book of sixies phoos I go o know him much
beter I had breakfas wih him a his home in Sussex and he wouldsomeimes si in on my inerviews wih Linda and hrow in some of hisown memories
Wha is he number-one idea you wan readers o ake away from
Popcultured
Seve Ta irsquos possible o undersand pop culure using a biblically in-formed mind and ha his doesnrsquo lessen he appreciaion bu increasesi I used o hink ha if you sared o hink abou culure Chrisianly i
would eiher adversely affec your faih or adversely affec your en-
joymen of culure Now I see ha i can make your faih more robusand useful and can also deepen your love of culure We make culure because we are made by God and however defian and aheisic peopleare hey canno shake off he divine image I would like he book o leadChrisians in confidenly conribuing o he ongoing discussions abouculure and wihin culure
Copyrighted Material wwwivpresscompermissions