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Blink: Popular Culture - Morning Workshop

Helping youth & kids team engage in pop culture
When Jan 10, 2015
from 08:30am to 12:00pm
Where Dalton Street Centre, Cardiff, CF24 4HB
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Blink: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective

Have you ever been confused regarding how we are to approach popular culture, such as in film and music?

Highfields Church is putting on a variety of workshops to help us learn how to interact with 'pop' culture, particularly for those involved in Youth and Children's work.

Morning and Evening - Saturday

This morning workshop is from 9am to 12 noon (with breakfast at 8:30am). There will then be a chance to put the learning into practice in the evening session from 7-10pm, by watching a film (Moonrise Kingdon) and then engaging with it in discussion afterwards.

Family Seminar - Sunday

There is an Sunday afternoon seminar from 4:00pm to 6 pm which will look at "Why engage with culture with your kids?"

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The sessions will be facilitated by Ted Turnau, lecturer in cultural religious studies at Anglo-American University and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Ted also teaches on popular culture and Christian worldview at the Wales Evangelical School of Theology (WEST) in Bridgend.

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Blink - Popular Culture in Christian Perspective - Ted Turnau

On being as wise as serpents

Ted Turnau reviews why and how Christians should engage popular culture:

One of the issues that has perennially dogged the Christian church is the issue of how to relate to the culture that surrounds us, especially popular culture. Are we to separate from it, in order to preserve our purity? Or should we go along with the flow, so we can better relate to those in the culture. Both options have their strong points ... But both miss the mark, biblically speaking.

The Bible supports neither a knee-jerk rejection of culture, nor an uncritical acceptance of it. We are to be both as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves (Matt. 10:16), both engaged with our culture and distinctive from it. It could hardly be otherwise.  If the people we seek are immersed in the surrounding culture, in its worldview and worship, then obviously we must understand that culture if we are to speak to the concerns of their hearts.

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