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Can we

July 13, 2009 2:48 pm

Can we create
More than a complaint

When it’s just not right
or worse;
evil
unholy
sinful
Where do we put our fight

Does our creativity end
In line with the boycott procession

Fed up with the propaganda
Do we jump start the same old band wagon

Full of fear
Miserable anxieties
Leftover diatribes
a Homily from yesteryear

Is this all we have to offer
Still safer
Retreat into subculture

Oh holy cloister
We make our last stand fervently
Alone in a cemetery

Can we enter into
Something honest
and Sincere

Does that rug still have a tear
a Reason to prepare

More than our favorite abstraction
More than a novel invention
Oh God, please more than a duplication
Convention
Placation
Imitation
Slighted with condescension

This will so free
Certainly
an Eternal perplexity
but, Is it capable of creativity

A dimension of surrender, completely

So worried about our audience
do we Forget, it’s only You in attendance

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Captives

July 3, 2009 7:41 pm

Forgive us Lord, this transgression

We of little imagination

Lost in the night of pace

Alone in the market place

Permit us to see the fire

In the desert a pillar

To free our creativity

From industrial captivity

The first born were not enough

Confused, their very lives are snuffed

Standing on the other side

Watching our captors, swallowed alive

O glorious day

We do celebrate

But how soon we forget the task at hand

Is a journey to the Promised Land

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Culture making…

May 14, 2009 11:45 am

The essence of childhood is innocence. The essence of youth is awareness. The essence of adulthood is responsibility. This book is for people and a Christian community on the threshold of cultural responsibility.

What is most needed in our time are Christians who are deeply serious about cultivating and creating but who wear that seriousness lightly—who are not desperately trying to change the world but who also wake up every morning eager to create.

I hope friends will read this book and begin to envision their friendships not just as the companionship of compatible individuals but as potentially transformative partnerships in the places where they live, study, work and play.

~Andy Crouch, Culture Making

Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
Author: Andy Crouch

I am looking forward to having a good many conversations shaped by this reading. Very thankful for the voices helping the boy and the cynic find a place where we can both play fair.

Categories: Culture, Creativity, Encouragement, Art, Books
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