Culture Care - by Makoto Fujimura (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>We all have a responsibility to care for culture. Artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship, in which we feed our culture's soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity. This is a book for artists and all creative catalysts who understand how much the culture we all share affects human thriving today and shapes the generations to come.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><ul> <li>15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Culture</li> </ul><ul> <li> <em>Christianity Today's</em> 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Culture and the Arts</li> </ul><p> <strong>Culture is not a territory to be won or lost but a resource we are called to steward with care. Culture is a garden to be cultivated.</strong> Many bemoan the decay of culture. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it in ways that help people thrive. In <em>Culture Care</em> artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship, in which we become generative and feed our culture's soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity. We serve others as cultural custodians of the future. This is a book for artists, but artists come in many forms. Anyone with a calling to create--from visual artists, musicians, writers, and actors to entrepreneurs, pastors, and business professionals--will resonate with its message. This book is for anyone with a desire or an artistic gift to reach across boundaries with understanding, reconciliation, and healing. It is a book for anyone with a passion for the arts, for supporters of the arts, and for creative catalysts who understand how much the culture we all share affects human thriving today and shapes the generations to come. <em>Culture Care</em> includes a study guide for individual reflection or group discussion.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><em>Culture Care</em> is a breath of fresh air for today's world. Fujimura invites us to find and make beauty in the world with attentive minds, grateful hearts, and generous spirits. The central idea is a call to generative care--fruitful, generous, stewarding practices in a culture characterized by an attitude of openness, love, and appreciation for beauty. This call to appreciate and cultivate beauty is perhaps the most profound insight for today's culture, which prioritizes the fast, useful, or most profitable.</p>--Jennifer Craft, Christianity Today, December 13, 2017<br><br><p><em>Culture Care</em> is beautifully written, powerfully demonstrative and theologically accessible. Fujimura transforms the conversation about culture from an idea to a lifestyle, demonstrating how Jesus cared not only for people but also for the culture of his people and the culture of others.</p>--R. York Moore, Outreach Magazine, March/April 2018<br><br><p><em>Culture Care</em> makes a convincing argument that all people should be engaged in nurturing culture, whether or not they themselves [are] in the midst of a culture war. Ultimately, Fujimura's urging to care for culture reflects the gospel of Jesus Christ across many traditions, in that he urges the readers to cultivate diversity, make room for the outliers, and care for the stranger who follows us generations down the road.</p>--Jessica Vaughan Lower, Journal of Religious Leadership, Fall 2017<br><br><p>Christian readers will find this book instructive and encouraging. Fujimura's work is instructive in that beauty is not a commodity to bargain with or exploit, and it is encouraging in that everyone has something to offer. The arts provide the church with an eclectic array of voices, talents, and experiences necessary for a robust approach to culture care.</p>--Justin L. McLendon, Calvin Theological Journal, 52.2<br><br><p>Culture is broken, and New York artist Makoto Fujimura wants to fix it as only an artist can. He's putting forward a framework to reconnect culture with beauty: 'culture care.' But this isn't just about artists or even art. It's ultimately about faith. 'I believe the arts and imagination are in the realm where nature is not strictly a limited-resources environment, that there is generativity embedded in creation.' he said. 'And when human beings exercise the imagination, and we act upon it with love, we create something that is so expansive that typical bottom-line thinking can't explain it.' Throughout <em>Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for our Common Life</em>, Fujimura fleshes out these profound ideas, making it a must-read.</p>--Relevant Magazine, March/April 2017<br><br><p>Fujimura offers practical, thoughtful and creative suggestions for a neighborhood group . . . to think about, discuss and take steps toward moving culture in a life-giving orientation.</p>--Emily Berman D'Andrea, The Presbyterian Outlook, January 11, 2018<br><br><p>I can't help but recognize that Fujimura's vision has substance and should be acknowledged and considered by the church as well as others who hope to mend our fractured culture. After all, Fujimura admits early on that this book is only the beginning of a much larger project, which is to pursue art and beauty as a remedy for our sick and quickly dying culture. That is why I believe this book is important for artists and non-artists alike. Whether you're a painter or a collector, a writer or a reader, we are all responsible for the casualties in the culture wars and thus must participate in the mending of the resulting divides.</p>--Douglas Graves, Englewood Review of Books, Lent 2017<br><br><p>It is a very readable book, full of thought-provoking and helpful ideas, and 'must-reading' for anyone interested in the arts and culture, either as a practitioner or a consumer.</p>--David McKay, The Covenanter Witness, July/August 2017<br>
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