On Being Counter-Cultural Growing up in the evangelical/Southern Baptist world, which was mostly fundamentalist then, something I kept hearing over and over was the need for us to be “counter-cultural.” We were not to be “worldly.” What this usually ended up doing though, whether this was intended or not, was creating a culture that mirrored secular culture, but was a G-rated version. That was the “counter” part. Same culture, just the Disney or the Thomas Kinkade painted version. Of course,... Read more