Creation leads to celebration.

Christ is seen as the converter of man in his culture and society, not apart from these, for there is no nature without culture and no turning of men from self and idols to God save in society.

My ability to make small changes in my local world is dwarfed by my dependence on the changes other people make at larger scales of culture.

science seemed to promise that human culture could not just make something of but could entirely dominate the natural world. There seemed to be less and less need for the humility that came from the theology of a transcendent Creator,

The most demanding forms of cultivation are disciplines—long apprenticeships in the rudiments of a cultural form, small things done over and over that create new capacities in us over time.

When we celebrate the arrival of the new Christian band, we are treating them as a technological device—the cultural equivalent of a laser that will in a few short years reshape the culture in significant ways.

SURVIVOR BIAS

If there is one thing culture creators cannot do, it is to control their creations.

the rise of David’s line to kingship, are a bewildering mixture of grace and sin, faith and folly.