Plugged In

Timothy Keller

There are now plenty of books calling us to find new ways of connecting our gospel presentation to the needs and questions of people in a secular, pluralistic society. Dan's book actually tells and shows us how to do it. There really is nothing else like it.

William Edgar

In this gem of a book seasoned author Daniel Strange manages what few people could do. He pre-digests the unwieldy and complex realm of culture studies and makes it unaffectedly clear. He also helps Christians know how to navigate in a world where culture appears out of control. He connects the decisions we must make to biblical texts, and to robust doctrines all along. Most of all he tells us why we should care about engaging culture and he makes crucial suggestions for how to do that. All of it is in a writing style that is full of imagination, enviably lucid, down-home without being folksy. This will be the go-to text for years, even decades to come.

A much-needed resource to connect our cultural stories with the True Story

Plugged In equips us to find a door into people’s worlds. Into our own worlds. It’s a much-needed resource to connect our cultural stories with the True Story - and to show others where they can find the real happy-ever-after they were always looking for.... continue reading

If you read this brief book you will do yourself, the gospel cause, and the people you’re speaking to a huge service.

If you read this brief book, and rethink some of your preaching and evangelistic conversations in the light of it, you will do yourself, the gospel cause, and the people you’re speaking to a huge service. I don’t know of any other book which covers this ground, let alone shows us what to do with it.... continue reading

“Good service”

Good quick service and good prices

“Good Book about Culture but slightly misadvertised”

I got this book thinking that it would be a book all about how we are to live in a digitally connected world - how we as Christians should be on social media, playing games, watching films, listening to music and so on. I hoped this book would tell me about how we can evangelise to others using technology or how we can use technology to God's glory. I was hoping this book would show me what things may be worth changing or viewing differently with regards to technology in the light of Jesus' death and resurrection. But unfortunately I was mis-sold - this book is all about culture and really (if I'm honest) hardly anything to do with technology. If the book was called 'Plugged into Culture' that would be fine, but it wasn't so that's a bit of a shame. I thought the illustrations at the back of the book were a bit unhelpful too, again all to do with culture and hardly anything to do with technology. A somewhat helpful book for those wanting to link culture to Jesus and thus evangelism but for those who want to know how we link Technology to Jesus to evangelism, this book won't help.