Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Christians and Cultural Difference
    Christians and Cultural Difference
    Christians and Cultural Difference
    Ebook84 pages1 hour

    Christians and Cultural Difference

    By David I. Smith and Pennylyn Dykstra-Pruim

    4/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Encountering cultural differences in the classroom, in the workplace, in the church, and in the public square is an everyday part of contemporary life. The chances that we will live our lives interacting only with those who share our cultural identity and ways of thinking are shrinking. Understanding culture and how cultural difference affects h

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCalvin College Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2016
    ISBN9781937555160
    Christians and Cultural Difference
    Author

    David I. Smith

    David I. Smith is director of the Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning, coordinator of the de Vries Institute for Global Faculty Development, and professor of education at Calvin University. In 2024, he won Calvin University’s Presidential Award for Exemplary Teaching. He has published extensively on Christian education and the relationship between faith and pedagogy; his books include On Christian Teaching: Practicing Faith in the Classroom, Learning from the Stranger: Christian Faith and Cultural Diversity, and Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide to Practicing Faith in the Classroom.

    Read more from David I. Smith

    Related to Christians and Cultural Difference

    Related ebooks

    Christianity For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Iran's Oppression Of Its Christians Tears Daughter From Convert Parents

      Mar 4, 2021

      The court ruling denying Sam Khosravi and his wife custody of their adopted daughter after converting to Christianity is one way the state's utilizes the judiciary to clampdown on minorities.

      3 min read

    • Article

      In LGBT-Welcoming Britain, Church of England Tries to Find Its Path

      Dec 22, 2017

      Anglican membership in Britain has shrunk radically in recent decades, particularly among youth. One cause is Britons' embrace of LGBT issues, which has outpaced the church's. But the church's efforts to respond are causing internal tensions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Rise Of The Chaplains

      May 17, 2020

      The Rise Of The Chaplains
      3 min read

    • Article

      Sunday, February 17

      Dec 14, 2018

      RECENTLY, A PASTOR REMINDED ME of something. Sunday morning at eleven o’clock is the most segregated hour of the week. I took some time to think about that. I didn’t grow up in the church and didn’t come to know Christ until my early adulthood. But w

      1 min read

    • Article

      End Note

      May 26, 2020

      End Note
      1 min read

    • Article

      Southern Baptists Meet To Grapple With Race, Gender Equality And Sexual Abuse

      Jun 15, 2021

      The Southern Baptist Convention meets this week in Nashville, bringing to the fore a host of controversial issues that threaten to cause a rift among the faithful.

      3 min read

    • Article

      When Honesty Is Intimate

      Jun 29, 2021

      I’ve always enjoyed having places to go and hang out with a collection of people, somewhere where they know your name. When I lived on Thompson Street in Greenwich Village for a time, back when it was still an Italian neighborhood, I admired the old

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Family You Choose

      Jun 2, 2021

      The Family You Choose
      7 min read

    • Article

      We Are The Meaning Makers

      Mar 17, 2021

      Like a satin bowerbird gathering sticks, feathers, buttons and pegs for its beguiling blue mess of a bower, I have built a meaningful life from the materials around me. Year by year I have accumulated reasons for being. In my teens and twenties, I ma

      5 min read

    • Article

      Rewild Yourself

      Dec 2, 2021

      Rewild Yourself
      9 min read

    • Article

      Leaping The Moat

      Apr 17, 2020

      Leaping The Moat
      3 min read

    • Article

      Leaping The Moat

      Apr 17, 2020

      Leaping The Moat
      3 min read

    • Article

      Let Us Walk Together

      Jun 1, 2021

      WHEN I WAS YOUNG my dad often took me to the woods. He is a person who believes in hugging trees — and not in a metaphorical way. If a tree was too big to fully embrace, he’d stretch out his arms and press his body, head turned to one side, against t

      2 min read

    • Article

      Folklore AND FICTION

      Nov 2, 2023

      Folklore AND FICTION
      4 min read

    • Article

      Sacred Ground

      May 24, 2022

      Sacred Ground
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Christians and Cultural Difference

    4/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Christians and Cultural Difference - David I. Smith

      CulturalDifference_cvr.jpg

      CALVIN SHORTS

      A series published by the Calvin College Press

      Titles in the Calvin Shorts Series:

      Emerging Adulthood and Faith

      The Church and Religious Persecution

      Christians and Cultural Difference

      American Roots

      When Helping Heals

      Copyright © 2016 David I. Smith and Pennylyn Dykstra-Pruim

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published 2016 by the Calvin College Press

      3201 Burton St. SE

      Grand Rapids, MI 49546

      Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data

      Names: Smith, David I., author | Dykstra-Pruim, Pennylyn, author.

      Title: Christians and cultural difference / David I. Smith ; Pennylyn Dykstra-Pruim.

      Description: Grand Rapids [Michigan] : The Calvin College Press, 2016 | Includes bibliographical references.

      Series: Calvin Shorts.

      Identifiers: ISBN 978-1-937555-15-3 | ISBN 978-1-937555-16-0 (ebook) LCCN 2015945268

      Subjects: LCSH Multiculturalism--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Ethnicity--Religious aspects--Christianity. | BISAC RELIGION / Christian Church / General | CULTURAL HERITAGE / Multicultural.

      Classification: LCC BV10.2 .S65 2016 | DDC 264--dc23

      Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, TODAY’S NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. TNIV®. Copyright © 2001, 2005 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.

      Cover design: Robert Alderink

      Interior design and typeset: Katherine Lloyd, The DESK

      Calvin College Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

      Series Editor’s Foreword

      Additional Resources

      1. What is Culture?

      2. Culture and Who We Are

      3. Wisdom at the Well

      4. Culture and Reaching Out

      5. More than Good Intentions

      6. A Bigger Hospitality

      7. Engaging with Grace

      8. Encouragement

      Notes

      Series Editor’s Foreword

      Midway along the journey of our life

      I woke to find myself in some dark woods,

      For I had wandered off from the straight path.

      So begins The Divine Comedy , a classic meditation on the Christian life, written by Dante Alighieri in the fourteenth century.

      Dante’s three images—a journey, a dark forest, and a perplexed pilgrim—still feel familiar today, don’t they?

      We can readily imagine our own lives as a series of journeys, not just the big journey from birth to death, but also all the little trips from home to school, from school to job, from place to place, from old friends to new. In fact, we often feel we are simultaneously on multiple journeys that tug us in diverse and sometimes opposing directions. We recognize those dark woods from fairy tales and nightmares and the all-too-real conundrums that crowd our everyday lives. No wonder we frequently feel perplexed. We wake up shaking our heads, unsure if we know how to live wisely today or tomorrow or next week.

      This series has in mind just such perplexed pilgrims.Each book invites you, the reader, to walk alongside experienced guides who will help you understand the contours of the road as well as the surrounding landscape. They will cut back the underbrush, untangle myths and misconceptions, and suggest ways to move forward.

      And they will do it in books intended to be read in an evening or during a flight. Calvin Shorts are designed not just for perplexed pilgrims, but also for busy ones. We live in a complex and changing world. We need nimble ways to acquire knowledge, skills, and wisdom. These books are one way to meet those needs.

      John Calvin, after whom this series is named, recognized our pilgrim condition. "We are always on the road, he said, and although this road, this life, is full of perplexities, it is also a gift of divine kindness which is not to be refused." Calvin Shorts takes as its starting point this claim that we are called to live well in a world that is both gift and challenge.

      In The Divine Comedy, Dante’s guide is Virgil, a wise but not omniscient mentor. So too, the authors in the Calvin Shorts series don’t pretend to know it all. They, like you and me, are pilgrims. And they invite us to walk with them as together we seek to live more faithfully in this world that belongs to God.

      Susan M. Felch

      Executive Editor

      The Calvin College Press

      Additional Resources

      Additional online resources for Christians and Cultural Difference may be available at http://calvincollegepress.com/.

      Additional information, references, and citations are included in the notes at the end of this book. Rather than using footnote numbers, these comments are keyed to phrases and page numbers.

      1. What is

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1