Editor’s Note: On October 10 and 11, The Gospel
Coalition will join with 9Marks, Sovereign Grace Ministries and The NETS
Institute for Church Planting for Plant New England,
a conference for church planters and church-planting churches, to be
held near Boston. NETS president Wes Pastor introduces this event, an
official TGC regional conference for New England.
The medium is the message. This is the idea Neil Postman popularized 25 years ago when he dropped his literary bombshell, Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Obviously we Americans could do with less entertainment, whether it’s
Netflix, FarmVille, or our insatiable appetite for sports. But Postman
wasn’t critiquing entertainment per se; he was critiquing our attempts
to deal with serious matters through it. His thesis: We live in an age
not of exposition but of entertainment, making thoughtful interaction
essentially impossible, since light media can’t support serious ideas. Keep Reading...
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