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Culture Care

Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life

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Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year
Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award of Merit

"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."

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 Culture Care 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.

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.

Culture Care includes a study guide for individual reflection or group discussion.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 9, 2017
      Painter and speaker Fujimura (Silence and Beauty) invites readers to support the arts as a source of hope in a world starved for beauty. In prose addressed to Christian believers but hospitable to others, he offers an impassioned plea for attentiveness to the arts, encouraging readers to become patrons and producers of art, not mere consumers. Fujimura contends that culture today is utilitarian, reductionist, and consumerist, replete with dehumanizing ugliness. In contrast to this, he says, Christians are responsible for seeking after and supporting beauty, and rather than engaging in “culture wars,” Christians should engage in “culture care” by attending to the capacities that make it possible for art and beauty to flourish: generosity, for example. At his best when interpreting specific works of art and literature to illustrate his claims, Fujimura makes a convincing case for reinterpreting the spiritual value of art. Unfortunately, his argument falls flat when abstract philosophizing divorced from concrete examples takes over, as it too frequently does in this short book.

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