3 problems, one solution – How Christian parents can navigate the culture wars – Part 2: The image problem

Everyone being made in the image of God is the starting point for good dialogue and disagreement - Andy Flannagan explores why

In my last article we briefly surveyed the technological problem facing us and our children – the way in which technology is driving us to prize the immediate, to focus on the distant and perhaps most importantly to ignore the ancient wisdom of God as he speaks to us. In this article we’ll see how this is compounded with an image problem.

I spent the first 24 years of my life in Northern Ireland. I’m incredibly proud that it’s my homeland. I’m still a regular visitor. I love it. I love the people. However, that doesn’t change the fact that my beautiful, yet broken homeland provides a disturbing case study in what can happen when two communities live in the same space, but separately. That is what is happening in the USA right now, and increasingly what is happening in the UK too.

We need to understand, remember and show our children that we have primary and secondary identities

I have dear friends on both sides of the political divide in the US. Speaking to them at present is like having to learn two different languages. It is painful to hear wonderful, kind people describe two totally different countries while living in the same country. Their news feeds and/or social media are reporting two different ……