Sep
16
2008
Skillful Culture Making
Many Christians talk about the need to transform culture. But many Christians disagree when it comes to how culture is actually changed. I have heard both Andy Crouch and Dick Staub say in various ways that culture changes when people actually make more and better culture. As Andy once wrote, “If we want to transform culture, what we actually have to do is to get into the midst of the human cultural project and create some new cultural goods that reshape the way people imagine and experience their world.” The problem is that even if you believe this, it’s hard to know from a practical standpoint how to do it. How do we create cultural goods that effectively transform our world? It sounds like a daunting, almost impossible, task.
In this article (published by the Work Research Foundation), Andy Crouch outlines some very helpful, practical ways in which we can skillfully create culture in such a way that our world is genuinely changed and transformed.