Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling is the winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture. The judges said, “An astonishing work that moves from sociological analysis to biblical theology (in story form) to their practical implications. Crouch’s main contribution is to show how Christians can and should do cultural analysis but not stop there: They should proceed boldly and deliberately to creating culture itself. This is a book for the whole church.”

Culture Making was also second on Leadership’s “Golden Canon” for 2008 for “The Leader’s Outer World” (“a wise and bold call to fully live out our creational mandate”) and one of Relevant’s ten best books of 2008 (“a thoughtful, extremely helpful reality-check”). Earlier Publisher’s Weekly named it one of the best religion books of 2008.

Wow. Thanks to all the editors, judges, and most importantly readers who have given Culture Making such an enthusiastic welcome. May it inspire many more cultural goods, including even better books!