One effective way to help people consider the question of God
in a postmodern world is to begin with narratives that are more accessible to
them than the Bible. Throughout our culture there are signposts of God’s
kingdom—evidences of God’s reality breaking into our present age—if only we
have the eyes to see them.
One of the most profound ways that we are confronted with
the big questions of philosophy is in popular culture. Not all popular culture,
of course. But in some highly thoughtful and well written music, film, theater
and other art, we come face to face with these larger questions. Christians would
be wise to build conversations in the public around questions raised by popular
culture in a way that opens people’s imaginations to God’s kingdom. This is not
a time for dogmatic proclamations about “what the movie meant” as if to say, “and
the moral of the story is …” but rather to invite people into the large
questions of their existence and sense of participation in God’s creation.
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