Phil and Dan McCredden, of whom I know very little but would like to find out more, have a web log which discerns the interface between faith and culture.

They’ve posted a marvellous piece on consumerist culture and Christianity’s response (or need thereof).

One of the biggest threats to faith by consumerist culture, in my experience, is its amazing ability to water-down our faith to personal morality. In consumerism, religious imagery, especially those seen in televangelism, reinforces individualism and capitalism by flooding the religious space with pietistic symbols and readings which lack any challenge to the consumer identity.