Radical Informality

MoralityPolitics

Radical Informality

41 min

MoralityPolitics

Radical Informality

41 min

Previous generations were so formal they wore suits and hats to baseball games. Now many Americans show up at church in blue jeans, shorts, and T-shirts. How has the cultural shift toward informality affected American Christianity over the last few decades? Join the White Horse Inn hosts as they evaluate the effects of “radical informality” on contemporary spirituality.

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Kim Riddlebarger is pastor of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim, California. He is a visiting professor of systematic theology at Westminster Seminary California and a frequent contributor to Tabletalk and Modern Reformation. Among his publications is A Case for Amillenialism: Understanding the End Times, and The Man of Sin. Kim also writes at the Riddleblog which is devoted to Reformed theology and eschatology.

Michael Horton (Ph.D., Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Coventry University) is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California and Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Sola Media.

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