Andy Crouch believes that the best way for people of faith to transform culture is not to endlessly analyze it or, worse, to try to ape every passing bit of pop culture and merely insert a religious message within it. Rather, he says, the way to change the culture is to make culture, serious culture. Human beings are transformed not by polemics or apologetics but through the vision embodied in enduring works of high art and profound thought.
Andy Crouch is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling and a senior editor at Christianity Today International. He also sits on the editorial board of Books and Culture and has been a columnist for Christianity Today. He was editor-in-chief of Re:generation Quarterly and for ten years served as a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He is co-author of The Church in Emerging Culture and a contributor to the Worship Team Handbook.
This essay excerpt was recorded at the 2009 Glen Workshop.
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