Daniel Strange > Quotes

“Curse and blessing are so singularly interdependent that the one sometimes seems to become the other. Work in the sweat of the brow is curse and blessing at once. Both point to the cross which at one and the same time is the highest judgement and the richest grace. And that is why the cross is the midpoint of history and the reconciliation of all antitheses.”
― Daniel Strange, Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock: A Theology of Religions

“transcendent foundationalism’.”
― Daniel Strange, Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock: A Theology of Religions

“¿Cómo se conecta lo que veo el sábado por la noche con lo que escucho en la iglesia el domingo por la mañana?”
― Daniel Strange, Cultura y conexión: conectando tu fe con lo que ves, lees y juegas

“Could it be that because our own cultural cupboards are bare, our starving imaginations are forced to live off the world’s scraps? Are we always consuming culture and never creating it? Why aren’t we telling better stories with all the same realism, imagination, subtlety, complexity and beauty, but without those aspects which make it difficult and unhelpful for us? Why aren’t we strategically locating, discipling, resourcing and sending out Christians gifted in the arts and the media?”
― Daniel Strange, Plugged In: Connecting your faith with what you watch, read, and play

“No one stops to think.” Most people I know don’t think about culture, or worship, or ways of viewing the world, or idolatry, or felt wrath and felt grace. They are just living their lives. They’re just scrolling through Facebook. They’re just watching box sets. They don’t stop to think. And it’s part of our mission to get them to stop and think—to try and rouse them from their nightmare and bring them back to reality, back to their senses. The idols we worship can’t and don’t deliver what they promise on any level, whether intellectually, emotionally or imaginatively. They can’t give satisfying ultimate explanations of the world. Our task is to make people “stop and think” about their self-deception. To make them “stop and think” about the commitments they make, the authorities they listen to, the stories and scripts they follow. And from here it’s only a short step to get to Jesus.”
― Daniel Strange, Plugged In: Connecting your faith with what you watch, read, and play

“Keeping ourselves from idols requires us to put something else in their place, because our hearts are hardwired to worship something.”
― Daniel Strange, Plugged In: Connecting your faith with what you watch, read, and play

“fortiter in re, suaviter in modo (boldy in action, gently in manner).”
― Daniel Strange, Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock: A Theology of Religions

“If we don’t discern, articulate and persuade others with the Bible’s blueprint for the flourishing of human life and culture, then others will… and are. And ultimately these alternative stories are all hope-less.”
― Daniel Strange, Plugged In: Connecting your faith with what you watch, read, and play

“First, culture expresses meaning.”
― Daniel Strange, Plugged In: Connecting your faith with what you watch, read, and play