Andy Crouch is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and named one of the best books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly, Relevant, Outreach andLeadership. In 2011 he became special assistant to the president at Christianity Today International, where he is also executive producer of This Is Our City, a multi-year project featuring documentary video, reporting, and essays about Christians seeking the flourishing of their cities. He serves on the governing boards of Fuller Theological Seminary and Equitas Group, a philanthropic organization focused on ending child exploitation in Haiti and Southeast Asia. He is also a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture, a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute, and a member of the Board of Advisors for the John Templeton Foundation. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and in several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing. He lives with his family in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, a magazine for an emerging generation of culturally creative Christians. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, he has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000.
Read more at his website http://www.culture-making.com
March 28, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Thrilled to have Andy on the slate of keynotes for 2013! He has been a huge influence in the way that I set out to be a culture-maker and cultivator of beautiful things in my own sphere of influence as a Worship Arts Pastor. Buy and READ his book “Culture Making” before you attend – there is so much to absorb and your face time with Andy will be that much richer. Yes, you’ll probably get a complimentary copy at re:create, but trust me, you will find that you want to share it with so many others, having multiple copies will be a blessing! You don’t get this from his bio, but Andy is an amazing artist and musician as well. In him you will find the heart of an artist, the pen of a scholar and the eyes of a pastor. I had the privilege to sit under his instruction one weekend at Jon Tyson’s church in NYC and quickly realized that “Culture Making” was a book that expressed thoroughly (even if inadvertently) what the intent of the recreate conference has been for the past 11 years. Andy will feel right at home among us – looking forward to seeing you in February!