The 4 biggest trends in Church and culture

Theologians from the UK’s top Bible colleges talk to Sam Hailes about migration, revival, formation and keeping it weird

Where do ideas come from?

It’s commonly thought that many ideas begin with intellectuals in the academy dreaming them up, before they ‘trickle down’ into popular culture. For example, long before the word ‘woke’ was used either by campaigners in support of racial justice or, more recently, as an insult on the internet, the complicated concepts around it (postmodernism, critical theory, political philosophy) were being debated in prestigious universities. Over time, some of these concepts trickled down.