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Entries Tagged ‘Culture Making’

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 [...]

the bcc’ing of success

This has been an idea that I’ve been trying to articulate for a while, and unfortunately I’m pretty sure its not completely flushed out. It’s still a work in progress.
So much of life, especially what the world deems successful is bcc’ed to anyone with the slightest interest. This is partly due to our [...]