Final Part – Review of Culture Making by Andy Crouch (Continued from Review – Part 3) Crouch’s final insight I’ll comment on is about finding your calling – where you can have impact on the culture. He recounts Jesus parable of the 30, 60, 100 fold increase. This happens when divine grace is experienced. When you work and move in… Read more »
Part 3 – Review of Culture Making by Andy Crouch (Continued from Review – Part 2) Another of Crouch’s insights is the principle of “3-12-120”. He argues that power is the ability to introduce a cultural good and that this inevitably starts with a small passionate team, you and a couple others. Whether it’s an entrepreneur with a wife and… Read more »
Part 2 – Review of Culture Making by Andy Crouch (Continued from Review – Part 1) The next section is a biblical survey of these aspects of creating and cultivating. Ending with the scene of the heavenly city in the book of Revelation, Crouch speculates that the city is furnished with human cultural goods – things humans have made. This… Read more »
Part 1 – Review of Culture Making by Andy Crouch (rest of the review: Part 2, Part 3, Conclusion) After hearing an interview with Andy Crouch on Mars Hill Audio, I found the book in our local library. The book is a helpful description of what culture is and how one makes an impact. Many of the ideas in the… Read more »
I haven’t read Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality yet, but just saw this review article at ISI. The review is compelling – here are a few excerpts: Our educational romantics assume that everyone is equally teachable, that every child would succeed at equal, developmentally correct speed, if only there were more money, better… Read more »
We used the Geography course from Bob Jones in 9th and 10th grade. Make sure and get a recent edition that includes all the changes in Europe and Asia from 1989 and on. We work on a chapter a week, on average. At this pace, the book can be completed in a school year. Though aimed at schools, we found… Read more »
A great overview of the Old Testament in narrative form. Dr. Leithart pulls together many of the pervasive biblical themes that we may miss if we read the Old Testament too slowly. Discusses themes common to the OT and reveals how Christ is found throughout. Review questions in each section reinforce and generate discussions. The 6th Grade Plan uses this book as the… Read more »
