Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling is officially released. It’s in print and on its way to distributors and bookstores.

It may be a few days before the book is ready to ship from vendors like Amazon, and in the meantime we want the word to spread. So we’ve posted three more chapters in PDF form, exactly as they appear in the book. You can download the PDF from

http://www.ivpress.com/title/exc/3394-sample-2.pdf

With this PDF, we have now released the first third of the book online. The second two thirds are even better. :)

I am incredibly grateful for your interest in and support of the message of Culture Making. You will be more helpful than you know if, in addition to downloading, reading, and pondering chapters 3 through 5 (which include, at no extra charge, a step-by-step recipe for chili that you will love even if your favorite five-year-old does not), you do one or more of the following:

1) Post a link to the PDF on your Facebook profile and tell your friends why you’re a fan of this book.

2) Write an entry on your blog letting people know that the excerpt is available and the book is on its way.

3) Send the PDF to your pastor or another Christian leader—encourage them to read just chapter 5 if they’re busy. This book is a call to change the way the church operates in culture, and in my experience pastors are finding the message liberating and encouraging. Many churches are planning to study the book together this coming year—you can be a part of helping your church do the same.

I am so grateful for the ways each of you is shaping your own cultural setting, and glad to be on this journey with you toward cultivating and creating more effectively, and more deeply shaped by the unlikely and lovely gospel, in the midst of the world.

—Andy