I picked up A Faith and Culture Devotional: Daily Readings on Art, Science and Life, by Kelly Monroe Kullberg and Lael Arrington, with high expectations. Unfortunately, it’s mostly the same old evangelical-fundamental half-baked stuff.
Take this from Kullberg’s introdution: “How did [the Bible’s] ancient writers know that electromagnetic energy preceded visible light (Genesis), or that “darkness” resided somewhere (Job) as physicists are now pondering….” Um, earth to Kelly: they didn’t know anything at all about electromagnetic energy or dark energy / matter, and its just silly to read the Bible as if they did.
And so, on and on go the rationalistic arguments, such as Walter Kaiser’s eye-popping “if Sodom was not razed, could it be that our faith is also in vain?” (P. 44). Well, historical referent in the OT narratives is a tricky and interesting question, but if you’re stuck asking this kind of question, and if this is your idea of what belongs in a “faith and culture devotional,” I’d submit you have some big problems on your hands.
Can we get an evangelical-oriented devotional on faith and culture that isn’t just mostly a thinly veiled apologia for inerrancy as it was understood by Francis Schaeffer? Please?