Christians Can Cultivate Culture

While there is a place for condemning, critiquing, consuming and copying culture, the primary posture Christ followers are to have in the world is as culture makers. In regard to history, the word culture is Middle French and comes from the Latin cultura, which is borrowed from the Latin word colere meaning to till, cultivate or tend.

Thus you have horticulture, the science and art of cultivating plants, agriculture, the science and art of cultivating land and livestock, and in regard to anthropology (study of humans), culture is about cultivating or developing a…