A review by bcbartuska
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch

informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Thank you Netgalley and Intervarsity Press for the advanced review copy of an updated and expanded edition of Culture Making by Andy Crouch. The new version includes an afterward with Tish Harrison Warren that is helpful in thinking through how culture making is different today than when the first edition of the book released. 

What an excellent overview of the topic of culture. This is a book I will be thinking about for a long time. 

Though it is a bit academic in tone, it is worth the time and effort. Andy Crouch helps us to consider what culture actually means, how we are meant to interact with it, and how our creating can be done to the glory of God. 

I have many takeaways, but just as a brief snapshot, here are a few:

—Most culture making fails. Do it anyway. 

—God is the original culture maker.

—As Christians, we are called to more than simply criticizing our surrounding culture. 

—We will enjoy fully redeemed culture in the new heaves and the new earth. 

The expanded edition releases September 12. All opinions are my own.