Making culture

Trevin Wax writes a positive review of Andy Crouch’s Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling:

“What I love most about Culture Making is the theme of hope. Crouch believes we can start creating culture in small spheres (our family, for example). He points out the importance of small groups (three, twelve, 120). Culture is not always made by the large crowd. We can all get busy fulfilling the creation mandate to create and cultivate.”

And see this post by John Seel: “How Does Culture Change?” (HT: Ligon Duncan):

“Winston Churchill said we shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Culture formation works in the same way: it’s a historically informed dialectical process. Culture is both socially constructed and socially constraining. We make culture and are, in turn, made by it.”