CULTURE MAKING is for Christians who are ready to stop just condemning, critiquing, copying, or consuming culture . . . and who want to start cultivating and creating culture.
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Stan LeQuire Does anyone know of a game/workshop that I can use with my graduate students that would help them learn the basics of cultural anthro themes: worldview, culture, religion, power, etc. I thinking of creating my own, but don't want to if someone has a better idea.
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Culture may be encoded in DNA: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/0
Culture Making Only 12% of Americans changed their residence last year—probably lowest amount in a century. What does _not_ moving make of the world? Cultural artifact (or non-artifact) of the week!
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Steve, thanks for your comment. Our family has been eating only free-range eggs (and chicken meat) for several years, even without knowing about the benefits you mention . . . just because it seems right for the chickens and those who raise them. The question of where our consumption goes and what kind of life it supports for those who provide its inputs is something I wish I had spent more time on explicitly in the book, because it's another crucial part of being cultivators of the world. Thanks for all you are doing!
Matt, I'm thrilled that the book was so encouraging to you.
Grace and peace,
Andy
March 4 at 2:06pm · Report
Steve N Melanie Montgomery
Hey Andy. Thanks for the book.
My vocation is farming and teaching. I want to add to the conversation on the omelet as a cultural artifact. First, culture-maker Veggie Tales wrote a creative story about selfishness based on an omelet. Second, there is a large difference in the health benefits/concerns of eggs based on the way the chickens were raised. Eggs from pastured chickens, which live chicken lives (walk/run, establish pecking orders, take dust baths) and eat chicken diets (worms, ants, grasses), contribute to human health through omega 3 fats and conjugated linoleic acids (CLAs). These fats and acids have been linked to promote heart health and fight cancer in humans. See this article if interested: http://www.motherearthnews.com/eggs.aspx. So the "goodness" of the omelet is linked to its origins. As well, it may promote health, $ for the small farmer, and delight for the palette.
Creating & cultivating food one blade of grass at a time, Steve
March 4 at 5:12am · Report
Matt Foreman Andy, I'm a pastor in Media, PA, and just finished your book today. It encouraged me and challenged me more than any book I've read for a while. Just wanted to say thanks for being a blessing.
March 3 at 6:42pm · Report
Culture Making James, absolutely! Build houses, cultivate gardens, seek the peace of the city . . . all are culture making. It's a remarkable and very important passage for Christians who sometimes feel like "exiles" in culture. In fact, many of us think Christians do much better at cultural stewardship with an exile mindset than an "Exodus" mindset (God is taking us toward the Promised Land, which we will then conquer and remake in our image). Of course both are biblical metaphors that have their proper application. -- Andy
February 21 at 4:36am · Report
James Walter I am interested in some thoughts about applying the instructions Jeremiah gave the exiles in Bablyon in Jer. 29:1-7 to making culture. It strikes me the directions to become full members of the Babylonian community and to pray for them is a form of culture making?????
February 20 at 9:50am · Report
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling is the winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture. The judges said, “An astonishing work that moves from sociological analysis to biblical theology (in story form) to their practical implications...
Alyce My Husband, Kids and I drove to Michigan for Thanksgiving. I have been away a very long time. My lifestyle and faith is so different from my Mom and Sibs, as different as Democrat and Republican...well exactly that! I am sure we all love Jesus. Anyway when my 15 year old was asked, searously, by a cousin to go shoot guns (automatics I assume at at shooting range) He said no. When confronted on my lack of "patriotism". I simply said "It is just not our culture". It was still and quiet and I liked it! I will use that defence again. Guns. Why so many. I can't change the gun culture but I am happy to have a boy who is not fasinated by them. Peace.
January 14 at 2:18pm · Report
Culture Making Denise, thanks so much! Great to hear, and steal as much of my material as you want!! - Andy
January 13 at 3:36pm · Report
Denise Anne DuBois Enjoyed your talks at the Vision conference for Third Presbyterian here in Richmond. The Lord has been laying on my heart to teach on culture for the devotions as part of our co-op. I was thrilled when the Lord led me to your seminar, a confirmation of His will. So, I will be adapting excerpts from your talks and starting to read your book, to enable me to cultivate in these young hearts and minds a new approach toward culture. Thank you!
January 13 at 7:47am · Report
Gratifying reviews of Culture Making continue to appear, and two recent ones are especially great to see...
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:::ANOTHER Culture Making Book Discussion Group:::
:::@ UBC Waco, TX, Tuesday nights::: Message me for more info. Cheers!
December 16, 2008 at 9:43pm · Report
Adam Langley ::: Culture Making Book Discussion Group, Austin, TX::: I'm not sure where to post this announcement, but we are going to be starting up a Culture Making Book Discussion group in Austin, TX (Round Rock, to be exact). If anyone is interested in joining us, send me a Facebook message, and I'll give you the 411.
December 2, 2008 at 5:00pm · Report
In embarrassingly good company including books by Kathleen Norris, Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw, Phyllis Tickle, and Gustav Niebuhr, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling has been named one of the best religion books of the year.Though aren’t there still two months left...
Culture Making Amazing video, Carlos, thanks for posting it here.
November 3, 2008 at 7:57pm · Report
Culture Making What did Michael Jackson (RIP) make of the world? With fear and trembling, our cultural artifact of the week. Add your thoughts at culture-making.com.