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Virtues of Cultural Engagement: Creating Culture

—by Tendai Chitsike

Over the past century, we as Christians have developed the tragic habit of lumping rampant godlessness within culture together with the cultural institutions themselves. As a result, we spend a lot of our time and energy critiquing culture, but very little time creating culture. We seem to have lost much of our once-held creative spirit, limiting our vision at present to not becoming like the world. Once on holiday, I visited

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