First Things RSS Feed - Noah J. Toly https://www.firstthings.com/author/noah-j-toly en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:50:48 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/noah-j-toly 60 Where the Culture War’s Fault Lines Really Lie https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/05/where-the-culture-wars-fault-lines-really-lie https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/05/where-the-culture-wars-fault-lines-really-lie Mon, 12 May 2014 11:52:00 -0400 J ohn Murdock’s “ A Crash Course in Q ” was an intriguing piece with one big weakness. Though Murdock’s critique resonated with many of my own reservations about how we frame Christian engagement with culture (including conference-culture), my experience of Q is completely vicarious, so modesty requires me to withhold or temper my own evaluation of the conference. But my experience of the fault lines that Murdock highlights for us is more extensive and direct. I see in them a much bigger challenge than Murdock’s essay suggests.

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