River Christian Training

Christ and Culture Recordings

Christ and Culture: Additional Resources

Week 1 – Post Truth? 

• Rebecca McLaughlin Confronting Christianity, Chapter 3, “How Can You Say There’s Only One True Faith?” 
• Video (5 min): Dallas Willard “What is Truth?”

Week 2 – Politics and Christianity

• Jonathan Leeman How the Nations Rage
• John Wilsey American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion (This book is more academic)
• Mark Noll, David Bebbington, George Marsden Evangelicals: Who they have been, Are now, and Could be (Various essays on different topics related to evangelicalism as a movement – maybe also slightly academic). 

Week 3 – Sexuality

• Gregg Allison Embodied (This book helpfully addresses embodiment, gender, and sexuality)
• Christopher Ash Married for God (A helpful book for understanding God’s purpose for sex… A good read for singles or married people)
• Sam Allberry Is God Anti-Gay? (An accessible and pastoral book)

Week 4 – Gender Roles

• Kevin Deyoung Men and Women in the Church: A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction
• Gregg Allison Sojourners and Strangers, Chapter 7 “The Offices of the Church” (An academic book that examines biblical passages dealing with men and women in the church) 

Week 5 – Race/Racism

• Jarvis Williams Redemptive Kingdom Diversity (An academic but accessible biblical survey of the people of God)
• Jonathan Leeman “Identity Politics and the Death of Christian Unity” (online article)

Week 6 – Heaven and Hell

• C.S. Lewis The Problem of Pain, Chapter 8 “Hell”
• Rebecca McLaughlin Confronting Christianity, Chapter 12 “How Could a Loving God Send People to Hell?” 
• Video (1 hour): Gregg Allison “Eternal Conscious Punishment in Hell: The Corpus/Consensus Theologicum of the Church” (A thorough lecture on history of the doctrine of hell in the church) 

Week 7 – Faith and Doubt

• Dallas Willard The Allure of Gentleness
• Ed. Ivan Mesa, Before You Lose Your Faith: Deconstructing Doubt in the Church