Culture Making Articles items tagged possibilityCulture Making Articles:Writing on Christianity and culture from Andy Crouch2025-01-03T22:54:05ZCopyright (c) 2025, Andy CrouchExpressionEnginetag:culture-makers.com,2025:01:02The glorious impossibletag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.5302025-01-02T22:53:00Z2025-01-03T22:54:05ZAndy Crouchandy@culture-making.comIn a lovely Christmas book for children, Madeleine L’Engle called the Incarnation “the glorious impossible”—an unthinkable idea that nevertheless shines with possibility and hope. It’s a good description of the gospel as a whole. And it is precisely the impossibility of the gospel that makes it so culturally potent and so perennially relevant. The gospel constantly challenges every human culture with the possibility that we live within misplaced horizons.
—Culture Making, p.176
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: ?This is a fascinating word- and image-history of the idea of glamour, from renaissance saints to high-speed trains to Hollywood starlets to the fancy hats of African-American woman at church.? "Virginia Postrel on glamour," TED.com, February 2004
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