Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life - Softcover

Fujimura, Makoto; Labberton, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0830845038 ISBN 13: 9780830845033

Publisher: IVP, 2017

Synopsis

<p><strong><em>Outreach</em> Magazine Resource of the Year<br /><em>Christianity Today's</em> Book of the Year Award of Merit</strong></p><p><strong>"Culture is not a territory to be won or lost but a resource we are called to steward with care. Culture is a garden to be cultivated."</strong></p><p>Many bemoan the decay of culture. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it in ways that help people thrive. In <em>Culture Care</em> artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship, in which we become generative and feed our culture's soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity. We serve others as cultural custodians of the future.</p><p>This is a book for artists, but artists come in many forms. Anyone with a calling to create―from visual artists, musicians, writers, and actors to entrepreneurs, pastors, and business professionals―will resonate with its message. This book is for anyone with a desire or an artistic gift to reach across boundaries with understanding, reconciliation, and healing. It is a book for anyone with a passion for the arts, for supporters of the arts, and for "creative catalysts" who understand how much the culture we all share affects human thriving today and shapes the generations to come.</p><p><em>Culture Care</em> includes a study guide for individual reflection or group discussion.</p>

About this title

About the Authors

<p>Makoto Fujimura is an internationally recognized contemporary artist whose work appears in major museums and galleries around the world. He is also an award-winning author of five books, including <em>Art Is</em>, <em>Art and Faith</em>, <em>Beauty and Justice</em>, and <em>Silence and Beauty</em>. He is the founder of IAMCultureCare and the Fujimura Institute. Fujimura served on the National Council on the Arts as a presidential appointee and he is a celebrated speaker and advocate for the arts. </p>

<p>Mark Labberton is the former president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He previously served as Lloyd John Ogilvie chair for preaching and director of the Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute for Preaching. Prior to that, Labbertonwas senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California. He has also served as chair of John Stott Ministries. Today he continues to contribute to the mission of the global church as a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission. He is the author of <em>The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor</em> and <em>The Dangerous Act of Worship</em>.</p>

Edition details

• Publisher: IVP
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0830845038
• ISBN 13: 9780830845033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160