I confess being quite excited to board Amtrak at 5:17 am in Elizabethtown, PA, to travel to the Big Apple to hear Andy Crouch, Executive Editor for Christianity Today, present material from his new InterVarsity Press release Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power. As some of you know, the Emerging Scholars Network has not only highlighted Crouch’s earlier InterVarsity Press publication Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling (2008) in various posts, but also featured Culture Making as the focal point for the launch of a South Central PA Christian Scholars Network through a Christian Scholars Series.[1]
At Imagebearer: Your Part in God’s Plan for Creativity, Justice & Flourishing (Q Session, September 17-18, 2013), Crouch walked participants through his understanding of . . .
- The good news about culture.
- The good news about who we are as created in the image of God.
- The bad news about our world.
- The heart of the bad news.
- How is God active in the world through us in bringing reconciliation and healing through providing particular examples of concrete human institutions and being a leader.