{"id":44,"date":"2008-10-22T19:09:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T19:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/textmessages\/2008\/10\/good-questions-from-culture-ma.html"},"modified":"2008-10-22T19:09:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T19:09:27","slug":"good-questions-from-culture-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/textmessages\/2008\/10\/good-questions-from-culture-ma.html","title":{"rendered":"Good questions from Culture Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Today&#8217;s blogged excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culture-making.com\/post\/our_most_basic_questions\/\">Andy Crouch&#8217;s book at the Culture-Making site<\/a> asks urgent, necessary questions. Forget about the election, and ponder this:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande';font-size: 12px;line-height: 19px\">If we believe that God is still on the move in human cultures, then our most basic questions have to be,<i>What is God doing in culture? What is his vision for the horizons of the possible and the impossible? Who are the poor who are having good news preached to them? Who are the powerful who are called to spend their power on behalf of the powerless? Where is the impossible becoming possible?<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s blogged excerpt from Andy Crouch&#8217;s book at the Culture-Making site asks urgent, necessary questions. Forget about the election, and ponder this: If we believe that God is still on the move in human cultures, then our most basic questions have to be,What is God doing in culture? 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