5 Things to Understand about Pop Culture

Ted Turnau, author of Popologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective, writes in Tabletalk on five ways to understand and therefore engage popular culture:

At its heart, popular culture is about worship.
Every piece of popular culture is a complicated mixture of good and bad, truth and lies, grace and idolatry.
Popular culture uses that grace to promote idols.
The gospel delivers just where idols default on their promises.
Not every piece of popular culture is appropriate for every Christian.

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