by Brian Walsh
A meditation on Isaiah 2.5-22
I’m pretty sure that my former colleague, Calvin Seerveld, coined that phrase.
Culture is not optional because there is no such thing as human life together that is not at heart a culture-forming enterprise. Human language, family structures, gender relations, economies, agriculture and creative expression is all culturally founded and culturally formative.
And for ancient Israel, culture making is at the very foundation of human identity. We are mandated to be fruitful, to multiply and to “fill” the earth. Read the rest of this entry »
