As someone involved in youth ministry, you are painfully aware of that occupational hazard called “cultural relevance.” Culture Making is an enjoyable and fascinating book that helps demystify the idea of culture. Culture is everywhere around us, engageable by our senses and ubiquitous; but that doesn’t go far enough.
Crouch demonstrates we were made to create and cultivate culture. Sometimes it’s appropriate to respond by condemning, critiquing, copying or consuming; but our default should be obeying God’s imprint on us to create. Culture Making illustrates helpful categories for how to be truly human. Once you’ve read it, present the ideas to your kids. You can break the cultural reactionary cycle by doing life the way the Creator intends. “Culture is not finally about us, but about God.”
IVP Books, August 2008, 288 pp., $20.00
