Christianity Today

you can chew over post-modern philosophy and all that, but here's some reality. i have been happily married since my early 20's, unlike some of my still single friends. we are now in our late 40's and several friends has either abandoned Christ or stopped going to church. they feel they are disregarded by "modern" Evangelical churches which are centered on families and the elderly. my best friend has said that divorced people are treated better than single ones at her church! she has also openly wondered why we abandon single women while Jesus obviously chose key single women for important roles in His ministry. why, indeed. if we are not celebrating our young (and not so young) single people in the Evangelical church, welcoming them and making a place for them at the table, why do we think Ms. Dunham and her admirers will give us a second glance?

Smith, unfortunately the church at large has no bearing on the quality of education that the general American populace holds. The church has effectively been banned from schools and public places and can only get their foot in the door in rural places away from media attention. It is not the church's fault that Americans are increasingly ignorant about Christianity. It's ours for allowing the progressives to isolate us publicly, mock us, and teach our children that Jesus is but a myth to be ignored. But Mohammad...oh no, Mohammad is worthy of receiving time in the classroom. This is our modern paradigm. Wake up, folks.

I saw the first few episodes of Girls, and I'd definitely recommend it to young women - as a what not to do! It's a great example of what mistakes to avoid. As for the church not offering anything to this generation because of the progressive media, that's true, but we as the church need to market the church better by avoiding politics and by preaching the gospel more.

"After two years of "Girls" it is still unclear what Dunham has to say about life, beyond the unsurprising revelation that it is difficult and confusing to be young. And her decision to tell her characters' stories almost exclusively through their sexual lives is the opposite of revolutionary; young women have been reduced to the sum of their parts and partners since time began." Mary Macnamara

Lena Dunham and "Girls" well represent the philosophical aimlessness and the consequences that postmodernism has delivered to western women. It can be a purposeless existence driven by some kind of narcissistic existentialism. When you ask what the church has to offer the hedonist Dunham, I'd be inclined to say that it offers absolutely nothing to her. Its safe confines and relationships offer this generation very little because they don't understand the church. They literally are ignorant to what it is and what its purpose is. They do not receive an education on the church except through the excessively critical lens of progressive media outlets. While the church offers her and her uneducated generation very little, the Gospel is still the same. It's still shockingly and humiliatingly beautiful. It still shatters the core and replaces it with hope and joy. Just as with all of us sinners, Ms. Dunham needs to meet the Lord.