I couldn’t be happier with Christianity Today’s cover section in the September issue—a level of coverage that came as a great surprise to me. (I work for CT’s parent company but have no direct editorial responsibility for the magazine.) They not only generously excerpted my book, but wrote five terrific short stories about exemplary “culture makers” I suggested: people who are cultivators and creators in very different places and spheres of culture.

If you’re a regular you’ve probably already read the chapter that CT excerpted, but you might enjoy this brief interview with Derek Keefe and David Neff’s opening editorial. David captures one of my goals for the book very well:

Since 1951, the Christian discussion of culture has been uncomfortably squeezed into five boxes created by H. Richard Niebuhr’s magisterial Christ and Culture. Generations of pastors and scholars have analyzed their church traditions using Niebuhr’s categories: Is my denomination an example of “Christ against culture”? What should it be? “Christ and culture in paradox”? As someone who found the Niebuhrian categories a frustrating dead end, I was delighted to find that Andy managed to write about culture from a Christian perspective for about 200 pages before turning briefly to Niebuhr. Culture Making subverts and reorients the whole discussion.

I surely hope David is right . . . let a new, better, and more creative conversation begin.