All Gods Children and Blue Suede Shoes
Christians and Popular Culture

All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes (1989) is another evangelical cultural critique somewhat along the lines of Why Johnny Can't Sing Hymns or The Closing of the American Mind. Kenneth Myers laments the church's lost influence within the culture as well as the broader disintegration of morals an......more

Really helpful in defining pop culture and it’s sentiments. Too often we engage with culture and it’s forms without thinking about what the forms themselves communicate. It’s true that the content matters, but this book is helpful in showing why the form also matters. It is no innocent bystander. My......more

This book was very different from what I expected. The pragamatist that I am, I expected an practical dissection of popular culture. Instead what I got was a more philosophical exploration of the origins and effects of popular culture. Of course, the book is dated in it's illustrations. References t......more

Great book for understanding pop culture, where it came from, it’s domination over folk and high culture, it’s impact on the church, and opens up self reflection on how it’s impacted us personally.......more

Man, this was a fantastic book. Damning criticism of popular culture and the religious appropriation of it: "We've managed to be of the world but not in it." Very similar to T. David Gordon, Why Johnny Can't Preach/Sing Hymns. Appraises pop culture as analogous in spiritual danger and temptation as t......more