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Entries for the ‘Culture Making’ Category

Culture Making in Small Groups

Andy Crouch in his book, Culture Making, discusses a relational model where creativity creates.  Many successful companies and other sources of things created are led by a group of three, that is to say a small small, tight knit group of like minded creators, working together for a common goal.  Often I try to create [...]

Redemptive Culture Making

I’m nearing the end of Culture Making (book, website), by Andy Crouch and ideas keep continue to build and inspire.  I love how a lot of ideas presented are redemptive and life giving.  For example, Crouch talks about the three human desires, namely sex, money and power.  He notes that the first two are redeemed [...]

Saints and Celebrities - from Culture Making

…there is an unsettling asymmetry between the Princess and the Mother.  I dare say that precisely no readers of this book ever could, in any possible scenario, take Princess Diana’s place–either her royal station, her worldwide celebrity or her magnetic grip on every nearby camera.  Leaving aside the fact that most of us are not [...]

Culture Making - a few quotes

I have about a hundred pages left to go in the book, but here are some selected quotes from Culture Making, by Andy Crouch that I want to remember.  I like how this book is filled with sentences packed with so much thought, that other books could focus on the ideas that briefly mentioned.  The [...]

Gesture and Posture from Culture Making by Andy Crouch

I’ve started reading Andy Crouch’s new book, Culture Making.  I’m only about 100 pages in, which can be read for free (Chapters 1-2 and Chapters 3-5).  Andy Crouch will be speaking in San Diego at UCSD in October (more info about that event can be found at this link).
Andy describes the idea of gestures [...]