the news and the golf channel), all but one had a Facebook account, and most people mentioned watching movies. The most difficult person to admit/trace their pop culture engagement admitted that having grandchildren kept them in the loop of what was popular, but that they did not engage themselves. There was a host of interesting points of engagement with pop culture across the interview, most of these things being mentioned only once or twice at most: CrossFit, Netflix, YouTube, the music genome, The New England Patriots, reddit, Pixar movies, Superheroes (especially DC characters such as Batman and Marvel characters such as The Avengers), NPR, podcasts, Smithsonian Channel, the Sci-Fi genre, hearing fiction novels on their long commute via audio book, and There was American Idol The Voice. an older lady a long time Nazarene that admitted to reading at the dentist. People – – One person, short of naming their active engagement in pop culture, simple declared that it was in the There was even some conversation about what “always background.” phone choice they made (flip phone v. iPhone v. Android) and what that says about them (one person declared: have a flip phone! How involved can I be in pop “I culture?”) There was one person who culture is basically everything you This said “pop do.” would become a strong point in my sermon series. This especially grasps the “cultural that James K.A. Smith writes about, that I want to help the church see. One liturgies” person was able to at least allude to the fact that we are immersed in a particular kind of culture, whether we recognize it or admit it. What do you think the church teaches about pop culture? If I could recreate the looks that this question got, it would be a highlight of this chapter. Eye rolls, exasperated sighs, stares into the distance followed by shorts bouts of
the news and the golf channel), all but one had a Facebook account, and most people mentioned watching movies. The most difficult person to admit/trace their pop culture engagement admitted that having grandchildren kept them in the loop of what was popular, but that they did not engage themselves. There was a host of interesting points of engagement with pop culture across the interview, most of these things being mentioned only once or twice at most: CrossFit, Netflix, YouTube, the music genome, The New England Patriots, reddit, Pixar movies, Superheroes (especially DC characters such as Batman and Marvel characters such as The Avengers), NPR, podcasts, Smithsonian Channel, the Sci-Fi genre, hearing fiction novels on their long commute via audio book, American Idol and The Voice. There was an older lady – a long time Nazarene – that admitted to reading People at the dentist. One person, short of naming their active engagement in pop culture, simple declared that it was “always in the background.” There was even some conversation about what phone choice they made (flip phone v. iPhone v. Android) and what that says about them (one person declared: “I have a flip phone! How involved can I be in pop culture?”) There was one person who said “pop culture is basically everything you do.” This would become a strong point in my sermon series. This especially grasps the “cultural liturgies” that James K.A. Smith writes about, that I want to help the church see. One person was able to at least allude to the fact that we are immersed in a particular kind of culture, whether we recognize it or admit it. What do you think the church teaches about pop culture? If I could recreate the looks that this question got, it would be a highlight of this chapter. Eye rolls, exasperated sighs, stares into the distance followed by shorts bouts of
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