Culture Care: Makoto Fujimura
Last week, the Trinity Forum hosted An Evening Conversation with Makoto Fujimura though Indianapolis Classical Schools at Herron High School. He spoke on culture care which is the subject of his new book Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life.
You will find the whole hour and half discussion (linked below) thought provoking. Near the conclusion of this conversation he states:
“I’m convinced that one of the ways artists can lead into this [culture care] is to take seriously this call to spend time, if you are a Christian, immersed in the word of God…to dwell, behold, to receive…I love that… eat, love and pray, right? That’s’ what we supposed to do with the word of God, and we don’t do that enough as artists, I’m convinced, because I don’t do that enough. ...If culture care is ever to happen, it has to be led by people who are doing that on a daily basis. Communities that are doing that on a daily basis. And churches that are committed to that and empowering artists to create and make things because God is a maker... I say in my book, knowledge cannot be knowledge until you make it into reality. It’s not enough to know up here. You have to let that knowledge go right into your heart...the deepest access, the deepest realm of your brain. It’s not enough to hold onto that. You have to make something with it because we are makers. ... So, how are we doing? In education, in churches? Do we make anything? Or do we just sit and complain, criticize people, and boycott? I’m sorry, but that’s not doing what God has called us to.”
