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Reach into the mixed bag of culture and you could pull out almost anything: food, theology, cars, physician-assisted suicide, tradition, furniture, music, plastic trinkets from Taiwan, talk radio, dog breeds, hairstyle, theories of evolution, historic battles, the impossibly long first chapter of Ben-Hur, clay pots, even politicians. Culture is the intersection of nearly every aspect of human existence, and as such it is impossible to escape.

Not that we need to escape it. The Preacher said,

“There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God” (Ecclesiastes 2:24, ESV).

The first response in the Westminster Catechism is similar: “The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.” There is a consistent theme within Christianity of the importance of enjoying life on earth, not only through sacred avenues, but also through culture and the humanities.

In fact, Christians are better equipped than anybody to enjoy the world around them. A lot of people tend to think Christians are long-faced pietists who never have fun—and many do live up to this description—but when God created the world He proclaimed it good and never revoked that judgment, even after the Fall. Taking delight in God’s creation (and Christians believe He is the author of all things) is not just an enjoyment in the thing itself, but also in God Himself.

Equating culture and the humanities is a poignant identification because it illuminates the relationship between human nature and mankind’s creative and intellectual impulses. Culture is perhaps the one universal language among societies, since everyone is impacted by the one in which they live. If we follow this thinking to its logical conclusion, we could say that culture reveals what it means to be truly human. If humans are made in the image of God, and Christ is the pinnacle of humanity, then as His followers Christians have not only the right but the duty to take delight in the good that is found in and among the human race.

Art & culture is central to what Exodus is about. Not only is it important for Christians to enjoy art and culture and to analyze it according to biblical standards, they should create it and influence society in the name of Christ. This is the major impetus behind Christian education: to raise our children, not just to sit idly by, but to engage and transform culture through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he's a husband and father who loves church, good food, and weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.
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12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You
by Tony Reinke
from Crossway Books
for 11th-Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$16.14
5 Cities That Ruled the World
by Douglas Wilson
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART)
$13.50
Adorning the Dark
by Andrew Peterson
from Broadman & Holman
for Adult
in Creating Culture (Location: XCU-CRE)
$14.44
American Way
by Allan C. Carlson
2nd edition from Canon Press
for Adult
in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART)
$16.11
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman
from Penguin Putnam
for 11th-Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$15.30
Angels in the Architecture
by Doug Wilson & Doug Jones
from Canon Press
for 11th-Adult
in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART)
$12.75
Art and Music
by Joshua Farris Drake, Paul Munson
from Crossway Books
for 9th-Adult
in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART)
$10.19
Art and the Bible
by Francis A. Schaeffer
from InterVarsity Press
for 11th-Adult
in Creating Culture (Location: XCU-CRE)
$11.89
Art for God's Sake
by Philip Graham Ryken
from P&R Publishing
for 10th-Adult
in Creating Culture (Location: XCU-CRE)
$5.94
Bless This Food
by Julia M. Pitkin, George & Karen Grant
from Cumberland House
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$19.51
Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America - CD
by Jeff Pollard
from Vision Forum
for Adult
in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: XCLE)
$5.00
Christianity & Culture
by T. S. Eliot
from Harvest Books
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$18.99
Crazy Busy
by Kevin DeYoung
from Crossway Books
for Adult
in Practical Christian Living (Location: XCL-PRAC)
$10.19
Creativity, Inc.
by Ed Catmull
1st edition from Random House Books for Young Readers
for 11th-Adult
in Creating Culture (Location: XCU-CRE)
$19.00
Cultural Mind
by Douglas Wilson
from Canon Press
for Adult
in Creating Culture (Location: XCU-CRE)
$15.26
Culture Making
by Andy Crouch
from InterVarsity Press
in Creating Culture (Location: XCU-CRE)
$18.70
Death by Living
by N. D. Wilson
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for 9th-Adult
in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART)
$16.99
Death by Living
by N. D. Wilson
2nd Edition from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for 9th-Adult
in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART)
$23.79
Desiring the Kingdom
Cultural Liturgies Volume 1
by James K.A. Smith
from Baker Academics
for 11th-Adult
in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART)
$17.50
Discovering Wine
by Joanna Simon
from Simon and Schuster
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in Culture of Food (Location: COOK-CUL)
$17.95
Echoes of Eden
by Jerram Barrs
from Crossway Books
for 10th-Adult
in Creating Culture (Location: XCU-CRE)
$16.14
Feminization of American Culture
by Ann Douglas
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Social Commentary for Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$29.33
Food Anatomy
by Julia Rothman
from Storey Publishing
for 6th-Adult
in Culture of Food (Location: COOK-CUL)
$16.14
Food for Thought
by Francis Foucachon, foreword by Douglas Wilson
2nd edition from Roman Roads Media
for 10th-Adult
in Culture of Food (Location: COOK-CUL)
$18.70
Foolishness to the Greeks
by Lesslie Newbigin
from Eerdmans
for 9th-Adult
in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART)
$14.45
Give Your Child the World
by Jamie C. Martin
from Zondervan
for Adult
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$16.99 $8.50 (1 in stock)
Glory of Kings
by Peter Leithart
from Wipf and Stock Publishers
for Adult
in General Theology (Location: XTH-GEN)
$34.00
God Gave Wine
by Kenneth Gentry
from Oakdown Books
for 11th-Adult
in Drinking With Discernment (Location: XCU-WIN)
$11.86 $5.60 (1 in stock)
God of the Garden
by Andrew Peterson
from B&H Books
for 10th-Adult
in Creating Culture (Location: XCU-CRE)
$15.29
History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage
from Bloomsbury Publishing
for 10th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$16.14
Home: A Short History of an Idea
by Witold Rybczynski
from Penguin Putnam
for 10th-Adult
in Houses & Homes (Location: HISMC-HH)
$16.00
How Should We Then Live?
by Francis A. Schaeffer
2021 Edition from Crossway Books
for 10th-Adult
in Philosophy (Location: XWV-PHI)
$21.24
Hungry Planet
by Faith D'Aluisio & Peter Menzel
from Material World Books
for 5th-8th grade
in Food & Farming Around the World (Location: HISMC-FOOD)
$21.24
Idols for Destruction
by Herbert Schlossberg
from Crossway Books
for Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$25.50
In Defense of Food
by Michael Pollan
1st edition from Penguin Random House
for Adult
in Culture of Food (Location: COOK-CUL)
$15.30
Ironies of Faith
by Anthony Esolen
from Intercollegiate Studies Institute
for 11th-Adult
in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART)
$22.91
It Was Good
by Ned Bustard, editor
2nd edition from Square Halo Books
for 10th-Adult
in Creating Culture (Location: XCU-CRE)
$21.24
Leadership and the Sin of Empathy
by Joe Rigney, foreword by Rosaria Butterfield
from Canon Press
for Adult
in Practical Christian Living (Location: XCL-PRAC)
$18.70
Liberal Arts for the Christian Life
by Jeffry C. Davis & Philip Graham Ryken, eds.
from Crossway Books
for 10th-Adult
in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART)
$12.00
Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books
by Tony Reinke
from Crossway Books
for 9th-Adult
in Literary Analysis & Reference (Location: LIR-LAR)
$17.99
Mere Christendom
by Douglas Wilson
from Canon Press
for Adult
in Christianity and the State (Location: XWV-STA)
$18.66
Modern Art and the Death of a Culture
by H. R. Rookmaaker
from Crossway Books
for 11th-Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$20.40
Next Christendom
by Philip Jenkins
Revised and Updated from Oxford University
for Adult
in Evangelism & Missions (Location: XAP-EVA)
$9.95
Noble Savages
by Rousas John Rushdoony
from Chalcedon / Ross House Books
for Adult
in Practical Christian Living (Location: XCL-PRAC)
$15.30
Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl
by N. D. Wilson
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for 11th-Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$18.99
Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl
by N. D. Wilson
2nd Edition from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for 11th-Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$27.99
Performing the Sacred
by Dale Savidge, Todd E. Johnson
from Baker Academics
in Creating Culture (Location: XCU-CRE)
$16.00
Plowing In Hope
by David Hegeman
2nd edition from Canon Press
in Creating Culture (Location: XCU-CRE)
$10.20
Popologetics
by Ted Turnau
from P&R Publishing
for 11th-Adult
in Christian Apologetics (Location: XAP-GEN)
$16.99 $8.00 (1 in stock)
Postmodern Times
by Gene Veith
from Crossway Books
for 11th-Adult
in Philosophy (Location: XWV-PHI)
$21.24
Real History of the End of the World
by Sharan Newman
from Berkley Books
for 11th-Adult
in Eschatology & Prophecy (Location: XTH-ESCH)
$9.99
Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
by Carl R. Trueman, foreword by Rod Dreher
from Crossway Books
for Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$29.74
Saving Leonardo
by Nancy Pearcey
from B&H Books
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$21.24
Scrolling Ourselves to Death
by Brett McCracken and Ivan Mesa
from Crossway Books
for 10th-Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$16.14
Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert
by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
2nd edition from Crown and Covenant
for Adult
in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART)
$12.00
Serrated Edge
by Doug Wilson
from Canon Press
in Preaching the Word (Location: XWO-PRE)
$10.20
State of the Arts
by Gene Veith
from Crossway Books
for Adult
in Art & Culture (Location: XCU-ART)
$21.24
Strange New World
by Carl Trueman, foreword by Ryan Anderson
from Crossway Books
for Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$15.29
Supper of the Lamb
by Robert Farrar Capon
from Modern Library
for 10th-Adult
in Culture of Food (Location: COOK-CUL)
$17.00
Technopoly
by Neil Postman
from Vintage Books
for Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$15.30
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
by Anthony Esolen
2nd edition from Intercollegiate Studies Institute
for Adult
in Parenting (Location: XFA-PAR)
$15.30 $9.60 (1 in stock)
Total Truth
by Nancy Pearcey
Study Guide Edition from Crossway Books
for 11th-Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$25.49
Traveling Taco
by Mia Wenjen; illustrated by Kimberlie Clinthorne-Wong
from Red Comet Press
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Food & Farming Around the World (Location: HISMC-FOOD)
$18.99
Truth Overruled
by Ryan T. Anderson
from Regnery Publishing, Inc.
for Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$14.50
Understanding Comics
by Scott McCloud
from HarperCollins
for 10th-Adult
in Advanced Drawing Instruction (Location: ELE-ARTDRAD)
$21.24 $12.00 (1 in stock)
Walking on Water
by Madeleine L'Engle
from Convergent Books
for 11th-Adult
in Creating Culture (Location: XCU-CRE)
$14.45
What the World Eats
by Faith D'Aluisio & Peter Menzel
from Tricycle Press
for 5th-8th grade
in Food & Farming Around the World (Location: HISMC-FOOD)
$21.24
When We Need Pictures of Jesus
Answers in an Hour
by Jeffrey J. Meyers
from Athanasius Press
for Adult
in Worship & Sabbath (Location: XWO-SABB)
$8.46
Worldliness
by C. J. Mahaney
from Crossway Books
for 10th-Adult
in Practical Christian Living (Location: XCL-PRAC)
$11.04
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