I have recently begun reading through Andy Crouch's book Culture Making with my friend Sam. I'm taking my time through this one as there is a lot of good stuff packed in. Here is a small sample:
They also find themselves, as we find ourselves, as human beings always and everywhere have found themselves, sensing that they are in the midst of a story. For the baby, it is the story of her family, a story that will be put together using words like mama and daddy. For our earliest ancestors, according to the archeological record, it is the mysterious story of a world with stars and rocks and bison, a world that cries out for explanation.
And God gives the primordial man and woman the same task that the baby almost immediately undertakes with the raw materials of her vocal cords, lungs and mouth--the same thing that our human ancestors did with stone and fire and pigment on cave walls. They go to work with these recalcitrant raw materials (even the Garden before the Fall, it seems, required tilling and keeping), forming and reshaping the world they find themselves in. They begin "making something of the world."
...Culture is what we make ...
