If you're not familiar with Carl Trueman, let me point to him as someone worth reading. He's one of the few Christian writers out there who engages culture without jumping on every cultural bandwagon (Michael Horton is another good example).

Best of all, he reminds me of Mike McKinley: intelligent, a little cranky, and typically humorous.

Here's the intro to his latest blog post ("Why Are There Never Enough Parking Spaces at the Prostate Clinic") at Reformation21.org:

One of the modern shibboleths of the evangelical church, particularly the evangelical church in the West, is that of culture.  One must be interested in culture, or one is simply irrelevant.  Books and organizations abound on Christian approaches to various aspects of modern culture; there are magazines and e-zines dedicated to the topic; and numerous conferences are held, some local, some national, some international, which address cultural issues in terms of the categories and so-called world-and-life-view of Christianity.   Now, I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater: sure, we need to understand the language and idioms of our culture to the extent that we need to communicate the gospel in such a context in a meaningful, comprehensible way; but I do believe that fascination with culture is now way out of hand in Christian circles and has come to eclipse more important, more central things.

Read the whole thing here. (HT: JT)