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Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life

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Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year
Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award of Merit

"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."

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 Culture Care 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.

Culture Care includes a study guide for individual reflection or group discussion.

Read more

Editorial Reviews

Review

"For Makoto Fujimura, caring deeply for souls is a way of life. Through his magnificent paintings, profound essays, and wider leadership with organizations like the National Council on the Arts and the Brehm Center at Fuller Seminary, Fujimura quietly and consistently nurtures artists and the people who love them, both inside and outside the church. In this life-giving book, he cultivates practices that help us honor God by caring for the soul of our culture."

-- Philip Ryken, president, Wheaton College

"In his generous and inspiring work Culture Care, artist Mako Fujimura suggests that our common culture is not a territory to be captured, but a garden to be cultivated, needing the nourishment of creativity, community, connection, and the generation of beauty. It is a grace-filled call to beat swords into plowshares and take up the work of tilling our common garden."

-- Cherie Harder, president, The Trinity Forum

"What kind of culture do we wish to live within, and how do we get there from here? This is the core question addressed in Culture Care, a book suffused with kindness and generosity. It is a book that goes beyond imagination to generation. It suggests and exemplifies ways of being that can help to create well-being. What is the opposite of a vicious cycle―a cycle benevolent, humane, and self-potentiating? We need a term. We need it to name the effect that this wise book can have if we read it, share it, live it."

-- Robert Schultz, writer, artist, John P. Fishwick Professor of English, Roanoke College

"With much compassion and courage, Makoto compels us to take our calling seriously to care for and cultivate the cultural soil in which we reside. He encourages us to view culture care as a biblical alternative against the prevalent culture of anxiety and scarcity. This is a posture every follower of Jesus should nurture to embody the gospel."

-- Mark Raja, designer, cofounder of Integrated Arts Movement, Bangalore

"Culture Care is a beautiful and powerful work of art, and it is about much more than culture, art, beauty, and aesthetics; it is about nothing less than what it means to be human. We all have a spirit that is thirsty for culture, as do societies at large. This book serves up a powerful warning about what happens when that thirst is not quenched; given the state of the world today, I can only hope that everyone in a leadership position reads, rereads, and ponders what he or she can do to care about culture, and actively so."

-- John C. Bravman, president, Bucknell University

"While serving with Mako Fujimura on the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, I often experienced his soft-spoken words. When Mako spoke, I wanted to listen because his words brought insight and meaning. The same is true of this book. As I read Mako's words, I listen, allowing them to leave imprints of wisdom on my heart."

-- Adair Margo, Tom Lea Institute, El Paso, Texas

"My friend Mako Fujimura is one of the most thoughtful, sensitive, and eloquent artists of this generation."

-- Eric Metaxas, New York Times bestselling author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

"Mako offers helpful insights not only for artists, but for all partners in culture care. His acknowledgment of the importance of addressing brokenness, creating safe spaces for sharing journeys, and truth telling reflects an appreciation of the relational and transformational power of engaging in culture care. While the reader could be overwhelmed by the pervasiveness of the challenges, Mako inspires us toward meaningful action. A wonderful contribution!"

-- Alexis Abernethy, professor of psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary

"When I first opened up Culture Care one night in Taipei and began reading, I knew that it was an important and essential work for today's artists. As I read, the book kept opening up like a flower of revelation. It helped define for me what I have been doing for a long time: culture care. I never had a word for it before. It has also helped me see myself differently as an artist. Culture Care gives the artist dignity and purpose, something that the church and society never gave me. The church never acknowledged art as a worthy vocation with a godly purpose, and society never fully recognized me either. So that's where I've always lived and worked―on the outside. But we are not alone and we are right where we belong!"

-- James Elaine, artist and curator

"The valuable lessons and insights in Culture Care are essential to reformation, renewal, hope, and subsequently the restoration of our culture and communities to wholeness. Mako captures what really matters in life: glorifying God in all aspects of our lives and our communities."

-- Mike Brenan, state president, BBT, trustee, The Trinity Forum

Review

"Culture care is the imaginative effluence of being a faithful follower of Jesus in any time or place. It's hope borne into places where hope that is truly hope must be realistic, slow, disruptive, and limited. Mako's encompassing, inspiring, humble, bold vision is life-giving, because it is what life is meant to be. Culture care is needed everywhere."

-- from the foreword by Mark Labberton, president, Fuller Theological Seminary

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars An invitation to the beauty and the arts!

N.B. · April 18, 2024

It seems that the church in America has missed out on the beauty of the arts and that is possibly what prompted Makoto Fujimura to write Culture Care. In this refreshing read we are invited to think about caring for culture through the lens of an artist. For those who don’t consider themselves an artist, this book will offer new insights to ponder. Fujimura shares his journey as an artist, into the Christian faith, while maintaining his love for the arts. Throughout the book we are evoked to slow down, see, and experience the beauty in our everyday life. In the invitation to this journey the author shares an example from his personal life where he missed the opportunity to celebrate beauty when his wife brought home flowers to their financially struggling family (page 16). His harsh response and her gentle reminder seem to have prompted this reminder to see beauty.Culture Care is broken into nineteen, bite-sized, chapters that gradually and creatively build on themselves. The book feels like a meandering river that combines stories, Scripture, and real life experiences to bring the reader to places they may have never ventured before. Fujimura reminds us that we are to care for the culture God has created for us to enjoy. One example of this comes as we learn about the pollution of the Hudson River and how in the 1900’s the river turned black as a polluted ecosystem. We are confronted with the reality of the pollution in the Hudson as an illustration of what has taken place in the rivers of our culture. The arts have been exploited for commercial interest and dominated by toxic products to make an earning (page 30).All this translates to a culture that is not life-giving for those who are impacted by this toxic mess but there is hope; the story isn’t over and as bleak as it might feel. Fujimura shares several historical examples of artists who impacted the world as we know it. He creatively reminds us of: Martin Luther King, Harper Lee, Vincent Van Gough, and Emily Dickinson to illustrate our need to care for culture. MLK had a written speech in front of him but was encouraged to tell the people about his dream. Harper Lee addressed the hatred of racism in a culture that was slowly building to a breaking point. Van Gough was misunderstood and couldn't find a place in the church. Dickenson wrote during a time that wasn’t ready for her impact. All of these stories remind the reader not to give up on the culture around them but to keep pressing forward to use their creative gifting to shape the culture. Sometimes the world around us can’t recognize the beauty of God contained within us.As we come to the end of the book, the reader is presented with several options for life application. One point of application is the reminder that God does not promise an easy path for those who follow Christ but He does give us an abundant path (page 122). Our art can be used to show our love for our neighbors in a world that is filled with anxiety (page 129). The worry of our culture is looking for something the world can’t offer but Christians can be those who bring beauty into the world. Finally we are invited to new vocabulary that writes new stories in our world (chapter 18). Our new vocabulary can be thoughtful, mindful, and meaningful as a new way to state old truths. The basic idea of this book is to bring beauty into the culture God has placed us.

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational Book!

D. · February 12, 2025

This book is very enlightening and is an eye opener as the author brings up many different aspects for positive communication with society through art and other God given talents. It is a great book for anyone interested in perpetuating peace and communication in society. A beautiful book!

5.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful and thought provocation

D.H. · January 17, 2024

Makoto Fujimura presents a thoughtful apologetic for people of faith to participate in the creative arts. Not as Christian artists but as Christians who are artists. The distinction is important—“Christian” should not be an adjective. There is no distinction between sacred and secular. Humankind made in God’s image (imago dei) creates because God creates. Too often the faith community restricts good art to that what is produced by “Christian” artists. The author thoroughly examines the environment that fosters, nurtures, and promotes the creative process. Artists, Fujimura asserts, may operate on the outskirts of our society but they do the spade work of opening new visions, expanding our horizons in God’s kingdom. Worthwhile reading for artists and non-artists who believe the creative arts should be at the core of our world and life view.

4.0 out of 5 stars An intense thought provoking read.

M.G. · August 8, 2022

Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for our Common Life takes a dive into Makoto Fujimura's thesis Culture Care.There is much in this explanation that resonates with me. I have found the idea of creatives of all kinds being "border walkers", to be true in my personal expiriences, and that the best art is generative. Art at it's best gives life, weather it does this by forcing us to face hard truths, or by highlighting the beauty of God's creation.The author highlights his understanding of this extensively through this book. I am just a simple woman so there where places I may not have understood everything as he writes in a very academic style. I took my time with the book and am glad I did.I would encourage anyone who has an interest in art, and culture to explore Fujimura's reasonings on why he believes Culture Care to be so important in today social climate.

5.0 out of 5 stars a must-read for creatives and cultural misfits

R.K. · November 20, 2022

I devoured this book in a few days. You don’t really know what your soul hungers for until you’re fed well. This book serves as manna for the culturally and artistically hungry; for those who don’t quite fit; and for those who feel like they’re in between two worlds. I’m a fan of Fujimura and his philosophy on art. This is the second book I’ve read from him. Never disappoints.

5.0 out of 5 stars Creative and interesting read

A.B. · March 28, 2017

Mako brings together a lot of knowledge and thought. The result is a guide for artists and Christians (sometimes both....and) on how to interact and create cultures and communities that produce a deeply good work that goes beyond mere utility to touch the soul. In other words, Culture Care is a great idea that can bring meaning to any task and/or person.

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing read

A.L. · July 13, 2022

A thought provoking book that provides a beautiful alternative to culture wars. Thus, the message that Fujimura shares is immensely relevant in our current time.

Not bad but I wouldn't buy again

K. · August 15, 2019

Can't particularly recommend this. I was really excited for it but didn't even end up finishing it, and then I donated it. I appreciate the effort and where he was trying to go with it, but I just couldn't find it interesting enough.

Very good book

J.D. · April 21, 2018

Brilliant insights and clearly stated.

Five Stars

m. · December 1, 2015

Refreshing and inspiring!

Truth, beauty and goodness.

T. · April 14, 2015

Makoto Fujimura is a world-class artist and thinker and this book gives an insight into his heart and mind. A series of connected essays to help creatives and entrepreneurs and churches to value beauty and art more highly as vital parts of care for this world. My only critiques of this book are that I wish it was longer, but as an introduction to provoke reflection and action it's a great primer, and in light of its length I wish it were ordinarily a little cheaper. But, it makes a vital contribution to a much needed conversation to freshly awaken wonder and care through culture and business.

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Description:

Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year
Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award of Merit

"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."

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 Culture Care 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.

Culture Care includes a study guide for individual reflection or group discussion.

Read more

Editorial Reviews

Review

"For Makoto Fujimura, caring deeply for souls is a way of life. Through his magnificent paintings, profound essays, and wider leadership with organizations like the National Council on the Arts and the Brehm Center at Fuller Seminary, Fujimura quietly and consistently nurtures artists and the people who love them, both inside and outside the church. In this life-giving book, he cultivates practices that help us honor God by caring for the soul of our culture."

-- Philip Ryken, president, Wheaton College

"In his generous and inspiring work Culture Care, artist Mako Fujimura suggests that our common culture is not a territory to be captured, but a garden to be cultivated, needing the nourishment of creativity, community, connection, and the generation of beauty. It is a grace-filled call to beat swords into plowshares and take up the work of tilling our common garden."

-- Cherie Harder, president, The Trinity Forum

"What kind of culture do we wish to live within, and how do we get there from here? This is the core question addressed in Culture Care, a book suffused with kindness and generosity. It is a book that goes beyond imagination to generation. It suggests and exemplifies ways of being that can help to create well-being. What is the opposite of a vicious cycle―a cycle benevolent, humane, and self-potentiating? We need a term. We need it to name the effect that this wise book can have if we read it, share it, live it."

-- Robert Schultz, writer, artist, John P. Fishwick Professor of English, Roanoke College

"With much compassion and courage, Makoto compels us to take our calling seriously to care for and cultivate the cultural soil in which we reside. He encourages us to view culture care as a biblical alternative against the prevalent culture of anxiety and scarcity. This is a posture every follower of Jesus should nurture to embody the gospel."

-- Mark Raja, designer, cofounder of Integrated Arts Movement, Bangalore

"Culture Care is a beautiful and powerful work of art, and it is about much more than culture, art, beauty, and aesthetics; it is about nothing less than what it means to be human. We all have a spirit that is thirsty for culture, as do societies at large. This book serves up a powerful warning about what happens when that thirst is not quenched; given the state of the world today, I can only hope that everyone in a leadership position reads, rereads, and ponders what he or she can do to care about culture, and actively so."

-- John C. Bravman, president, Bucknell University

"While serving with Mako Fujimura on the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, I often experienced his soft-spoken words. When Mako spoke, I wanted to listen because his words brought insight and meaning. The same is true of this book. As I read Mako's words, I listen, allowing them to leave imprints of wisdom on my heart."

-- Adair Margo, Tom Lea Institute, El Paso, Texas

"My friend Mako Fujimura is one of the most thoughtful, sensitive, and eloquent artists of this generation."

-- Eric Metaxas, New York Times bestselling author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

"Mako offers helpful insights not only for artists, but for all partners in culture care. His acknowledgment of the importance of addressing brokenness, creating safe spaces for sharing journeys, and truth telling reflects an appreciation of the relational and transformational power of engaging in culture care. While the reader could be overwhelmed by the pervasiveness of the challenges, Mako inspires us toward meaningful action. A wonderful contribution!"

-- Alexis Abernethy, professor of psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary

"When I first opened up Culture Care one night in Taipei and began reading, I knew that it was an important and essential work for today's artists. As I read, the book kept opening up like a flower of revelation. It helped define for me what I have been doing for a long time: culture care. I never had a word for it before. It has also helped me see myself differently as an artist. Culture Care gives the artist dignity and purpose, something that the church and society never gave me. The church never acknowledged art as a worthy vocation with a godly purpose, and society never fully recognized me either. So that's where I've always lived and worked―on the outside. But we are not alone and we are right where we belong!"

-- James Elaine, artist and curator

"The valuable lessons and insights in Culture Care are essential to reformation, renewal, hope, and subsequently the restoration of our culture and communities to wholeness. Mako captures what really matters in life: glorifying God in all aspects of our lives and our communities."

-- Mike Brenan, state president, BBT, trustee, The Trinity Forum

Review

"Culture care is the imaginative effluence of being a faithful follower of Jesus in any time or place. It's hope borne into places where hope that is truly hope must be realistic, slow, disruptive, and limited. Mako's encompassing, inspiring, humble, bold vision is life-giving, because it is what life is meant to be. Culture care is needed everywhere."

-- from the foreword by Mark Labberton, president, Fuller Theological Seminary

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars An invitation to the beauty and the arts!

N.B. · April 18, 2024

It seems that the church in America has missed out on the beauty of the arts and that is possibly what prompted Makoto Fujimura to write Culture Care. In this refreshing read we are invited to think about caring for culture through the lens of an artist. For those who don’t consider themselves an artist, this book will offer new insights to ponder. Fujimura shares his journey as an artist, into the Christian faith, while maintaining his love for the arts. Throughout the book we are evoked to slow down, see, and experience the beauty in our everyday life. In the invitation to this journey the author shares an example from his personal life where he missed the opportunity to celebrate beauty when his wife brought home flowers to their financially struggling family (page 16). His harsh response and her gentle reminder seem to have prompted this reminder to see beauty.Culture Care is broken into nineteen, bite-sized, chapters that gradually and creatively build on themselves. The book feels like a meandering river that combines stories, Scripture, and real life experiences to bring the reader to places they may have never ventured before. Fujimura reminds us that we are to care for the culture God has created for us to enjoy. One example of this comes as we learn about the pollution of the Hudson River and how in the 1900’s the river turned black as a polluted ecosystem. We are confronted with the reality of the pollution in the Hudson as an illustration of what has taken place in the rivers of our culture. The arts have been exploited for commercial interest and dominated by toxic products to make an earning (page 30).All this translates to a culture that is not life-giving for those who are impacted by this toxic mess but there is hope; the story isn’t over and as bleak as it might feel. Fujimura shares several historical examples of artists who impacted the world as we know it. He creatively reminds us of: Martin Luther King, Harper Lee, Vincent Van Gough, and Emily Dickinson to illustrate our need to care for culture. MLK had a written speech in front of him but was encouraged to tell the people about his dream. Harper Lee addressed the hatred of racism in a culture that was slowly building to a breaking point. Van Gough was misunderstood and couldn't find a place in the church. Dickenson wrote during a time that wasn’t ready for her impact. All of these stories remind the reader not to give up on the culture around them but to keep pressing forward to use their creative gifting to shape the culture. Sometimes the world around us can’t recognize the beauty of God contained within us.As we come to the end of the book, the reader is presented with several options for life application. One point of application is the reminder that God does not promise an easy path for those who follow Christ but He does give us an abundant path (page 122). Our art can be used to show our love for our neighbors in a world that is filled with anxiety (page 129). The worry of our culture is looking for something the world can’t offer but Christians can be those who bring beauty into the world. Finally we are invited to new vocabulary that writes new stories in our world (chapter 18). Our new vocabulary can be thoughtful, mindful, and meaningful as a new way to state old truths. The basic idea of this book is to bring beauty into the culture God has placed us.

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational Book!

D. · February 12, 2025

This book is very enlightening and is an eye opener as the author brings up many different aspects for positive communication with society through art and other God given talents. It is a great book for anyone interested in perpetuating peace and communication in society. A beautiful book!

5.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful and thought provocation

D.H. · January 17, 2024

Makoto Fujimura presents a thoughtful apologetic for people of faith to participate in the creative arts. Not as Christian artists but as Christians who are artists. The distinction is important—“Christian” should not be an adjective. There is no distinction between sacred and secular. Humankind made in God’s image (imago dei) creates because God creates. Too often the faith community restricts good art to that what is produced by “Christian” artists. The author thoroughly examines the environment that fosters, nurtures, and promotes the creative process. Artists, Fujimura asserts, may operate on the outskirts of our society but they do the spade work of opening new visions, expanding our horizons in God’s kingdom. Worthwhile reading for artists and non-artists who believe the creative arts should be at the core of our world and life view.

4.0 out of 5 stars An intense thought provoking read.

M.G. · August 8, 2022

Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for our Common Life takes a dive into Makoto Fujimura's thesis Culture Care.There is much in this explanation that resonates with me. I have found the idea of creatives of all kinds being "border walkers", to be true in my personal expiriences, and that the best art is generative. Art at it's best gives life, weather it does this by forcing us to face hard truths, or by highlighting the beauty of God's creation.The author highlights his understanding of this extensively through this book. I am just a simple woman so there where places I may not have understood everything as he writes in a very academic style. I took my time with the book and am glad I did.I would encourage anyone who has an interest in art, and culture to explore Fujimura's reasonings on why he believes Culture Care to be so important in today social climate.

5.0 out of 5 stars a must-read for creatives and cultural misfits

R.K. · November 20, 2022

I devoured this book in a few days. You don’t really know what your soul hungers for until you’re fed well. This book serves as manna for the culturally and artistically hungry; for those who don’t quite fit; and for those who feel like they’re in between two worlds. I’m a fan of Fujimura and his philosophy on art. This is the second book I’ve read from him. Never disappoints.

5.0 out of 5 stars Creative and interesting read

A.B. · March 28, 2017

Mako brings together a lot of knowledge and thought. The result is a guide for artists and Christians (sometimes both....and) on how to interact and create cultures and communities that produce a deeply good work that goes beyond mere utility to touch the soul. In other words, Culture Care is a great idea that can bring meaning to any task and/or person.

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing read

A.L. · July 13, 2022

A thought provoking book that provides a beautiful alternative to culture wars. Thus, the message that Fujimura shares is immensely relevant in our current time.

Not bad but I wouldn't buy again

K. · August 15, 2019

Can't particularly recommend this. I was really excited for it but didn't even end up finishing it, and then I donated it. I appreciate the effort and where he was trying to go with it, but I just couldn't find it interesting enough.

Very good book

J.D. · April 21, 2018

Brilliant insights and clearly stated.

Five Stars

m. · December 1, 2015

Refreshing and inspiring!

Truth, beauty and goodness.

T. · April 14, 2015

Makoto Fujimura is a world-class artist and thinker and this book gives an insight into his heart and mind. A series of connected essays to help creatives and entrepreneurs and churches to value beauty and art more highly as vital parts of care for this world. My only critiques of this book are that I wish it was longer, but as an introduction to provoke reflection and action it's a great primer, and in light of its length I wish it were ordinarily a little cheaper. But, it makes a vital contribution to a much needed conversation to freshly awaken wonder and care through culture and business.

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