Tag: culture
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How You Describe Yourself Depends on Where You’re From
Atlantic: How You Describe Yourself Depends on Where You're From I would love to know if there are regional differences in the United States.
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Best of It: The Story and the Mission (Part 1)
[Series Index] Today we begin Chapter 6, “The Story and the Mission,” in John Stackhouse’s book Making the Best of It. “The Bible is fundamentally a story,” Stackhouse writes. (181) It flows from creation to Fall, to redemption, to consummation. Through various genres and authors, we learn what has happened and what will happen. The…
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Best of It: Definitions
[Series Index] John Stackhouse lays out some important definitions to begin Chapter 1 of Making the Best of It. Culture Culture is the response we give to two "make" questions when thinking about a particular society: What do they make? What do they make of it? As Martin Marty wrote, culture is "everything humans do…