![]() ![]() For all you Michael Card lovers, Brian has joined forces with the Card himself and made some pretty sweet music. See here for his website (you can see the kindly face for yourself). His night job has him moonlighting with all kinds of imagination-deepening, church-strengthening, artist-loving projects. His day job involves leading worship, music and the arts at John Knox Presbyterian Church in Seattle. He's got a lush beard and a Saint Nicolas-like smile. I met him a second time at Steven Purcell's wedding this past August. I first met Brian at the Transforming Culture symposium here in Austin. Brian Moss, Prayer Book Project, Seattle, WA But, I dare say, it's much more a must read for pastors and leaders of the church.Īnd I was not paid a dime to make that statement.Ģ. And if you understand rightly God's call on your life to make culture, then, no worries, amigo, your business with art will fall nicely into place. Because prior to your calling as a maker of art is your calling as a maker of culture. If you're an artist wanting to make sense of your calling as an artist, go by yourself a copy. But I'll let you experience the yumminess of that thought for your own by letting you read the book. He also has a great commentary about omelets. Andy, with a persistent grace, forces us to pay attention to it again and again. There's also a feeling that Christians who think of our human vocation exclusively in terms of evangelism and getting folks to heaven and then, un-encumbered by material flesh, singing God's praises throughout eternity-and by singing, we mean singing literally, not figuratively, because that's mostly what gets center stage in the book of Revelation-they've simply hurried past Genesis 2:15, without really paying attention to the concrete reality of God's act, and dismissed it as un-important. Put that way, there's a sudden but also humbling "Of course!" to the obviousness of the point. "Without the task of gardening-cultivating, tending, ruling and creating using the bountiful raw material of nature-the woman and man would have had nothing to do, nothing to be." A constant refrain that drives his thesis forward is this: What does it mean for us humans to make sense of the world by making something of the world? If culture is what we make of the world, he argues, then we are making two kinds of things: meaning and stuff. It has a nice gentle, narrative tone about it that keeps me leaning forward, curious, and encouraged while also challenged. I've really enjoyed reading Andy's latest. Andy Crouch, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, Swarthmore, PA I've found myself journaling about things that might have been left un-recorded were it not for this forced regiment: sex, golf, money, a fractured relationship, the last line that Jack Black's character speaks in the movie King Kong-the usual male interests.įor today I want to make note, in honor of Andy Crouch's fine book Culture Makers, of ten artists who are making artistic culture worth knowing about. We both feel the inconvenience of our commitment.īut it's also been a boon. Aichihuahua." Aichihuahua, she says back to me, because she too has left her daily drawing to the end of the day. ![]() Out of the last ten days, seven I've found myself at the wee end of the night, a total sloshy noodle, with desires only for my pillow, then: bing! The bell goes off in my head. This writing challenge is becoming a drag and a boon. ![]()
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