creating cultural goods by definition requires cultural power.

Highways are our rivers. Cities arise and economies thrive where they intersect. New forms of commerce flourish alongside the interstate.

History and historians make our lives easier by preselecting the most salient, world-changing cultural goods by sheer force of time and attrition.

human beings, in God’s original intention and in their redemptive destination, cannot be separated from the cultural goods they create and cultivate at their best.

first is that grace is no exemption from the disciplines: the careful, painstaking cultivation of the part of culture where we are called to be creators.

Revelation is a book of apocalypse, a Greek word that originally meant not catastrophe or the end of the world, but simply disclosure. In Revelation John offers a divine disclosure of the meaning of current and future events, setting them all in a distinctively Jewish language of cosmic drama.

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for any cultural good to reach its full potential, the efforts of more than three people will be required. There will need to be concentric circles of people around the initial three who join in refining and shaping the three’s initial proposal.

The only way to change culture is to create more of it.