Launch of Central PA Christian Scholars Network
Posted by tom | Jan 30, 2009InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Central PA Graduate & Faculty Ministry invites Christian scholars to consider
Culture Making on Campus
Featured speaker:
Andy Crouch, author of Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling (InterVarsity Press, 2008), a senior editor at Christianity Today International (CTI), a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture, a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute.
Sunday, April 19, 12:30 pm
Lunch hosted and provided by Elizabethtown Brethren in Christ, 996 East High Street, Elizabethtown, PA. Click here for Mapquest directions. Note: A freewill offering for the lunch will be accepted.
Booktable provided by Hearts & Minds Bookstore
RSVP by April 5 to Tom Grosh, tgrosh4 @ aol dot com
Click here for 2-sided postcard invitations (PDF) and here for a poster to share with others.
Note: Andy will be sharing more on the Biblical theme of and the general application of Culture Making during Elizabethtown Brethren in Christ's 8:30 am worship service, 10 am adult elective, and 11 am worship service. No need to RSVP to join us for these sessions, but Tom would appreciate knowing of your interest so that he can welcome you.
Looking to discuss Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling? Several opportunities will be available, the first of which will be on Thursday, March 26, 7pm, Elizabethtown Brethren in Christ. Part of the fruit of these conversations will be a piece for Brethren in Christ History and Life on the applicability of the Culture Making Model to the Brethren in Christ, with Elizabethtown Brethren in Christ serving as a case study.
Culture is what we make of the world -- we start not with a blank slate but with all the richly enculturated world that previous generations have handed to us. So when I go to the kitchen to make dinner or when a screenwriter sits down to write a script, the first requirement of us is that we be sufficiently acquainted with our cultural world. To cook well I need to be familiar with the proper use of knives, the qualities of spices, the properties of stainless steel and cast iron pots. I need to understand the culinary tradition I am joining -- am I making Italian or Chinese or Mexican food? -- Andy Crouch, Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007, p.73).
