Every culture argues about right and wrong.
About justice.
About freedom.
About what people deserve and who gets to decide.
Scroll through social media, listen to the news, or sit in a college classroom, and you’ll hear passionate moral claims everywhere. People speak with confidence, urgency, and outrage.
What you won’t often hear is this question:
Where do those moral claims come from?
Culture is formed by convictions long before they appear
in public debate. Without God, those convictions have no meaning.
At TBBA, Cultural Engagement exists to slow the conversation down and go deeper, where those assumptions can actually be examined. We do not chase headlines. We examine the beliefs that shape them, because culture is formed by convictions long before they appear in public debate.
Modern society often insists it can have strong moral convictions without God. It speaks confidently about justice, rights, dignity, and equality while rejecting any transcendent source for those values. The result is a culture full of moral certainty, but unable to explain why anyone is obligated to agree.
When people demand fairness, they assume a standard.
When they protest injustice, they assume moral obligation.
When they appeal to human dignity, they assume inherent human value.
Those assumptions do not come from nowhere.
You can’t demand justice without assuming a standard of justice.
This category explores ethics, society, law, government, and contemporary issues through a consciously biblical worldview. That doesn’t mean forcing Scripture onto culture. It means recognizing that culture is already operating on borrowed assumptions—many of them deeply biblical, even when they’re denied.
People want moral meaning without moral authority.
They want moral outcomes without moral grounding.
They want the fruit, but not the root.
Cultural Engagement also refuses a false choice many Christians feel trapped in: either withdraw from culture entirely or blend into it without question. Scripture calls us to neither silence nor shouting, but to faithful thinking and clear speech.
We are not called to mirror the outrage of the age.
We are called to expose its foundations.
A culture that rejects God still
depends on Him to make sense of its moral outrage.
This category is not about winning arguments or chasing controversy. It is about understanding why cultural claims sound persuasive—and whether they can actually support the weight they carry.
Here, we will examine questions about justice, law, power, freedom, and responsibility by asking the deeper question culture often avoids: What must be true for these ideas to make sense at all?
The real conflict in culture isn’t
left vs. right—it’s foundation vs. foundation.
Cultural Engagement exists to help Christians recognize that ideas have consequences, that moral language demands grounding, and that culture cannot explain itself apart from God—even when it insists otherwise.
