S2E13: Redemption and Recreation

Hey everyone! Welcome to this week's episode of The AUSA Podcast! This is our last conversation about culture making, so we're a little bit sad, but we couldn't have ended it any better. This we talk with Sylvia Swords and Dr. Turner, a professor at AU, about the culmination of God's project and partnership with humanity — the redemption and recreation of all things!
We begin by looking back over the season and recapping what we've talked about. Then, for the majority of the episode, we take a big picture look at the biblical story, tracing themes and literary design patterns through Genesis, Psalms, Isaiah, and Revelation to find out what God has intends the ultimate end of culture making to be. We dive into why this is important for us as we create and cultivate culture, what it means to have hope in light of this New Creation, why it's important that God retains and redeems the things that humanity has made along with humanity itself, and why Christians shouldn't postpone this recreation to some far off and mysterious day way in the future.
Thank you all so much for being a part of this conversation about culture making. At the end of the day, all of this is much less about a good book or a witty turn of phrase and much more about exploring the riches and depths of the central thread of the biblical story. That is, embracing and trusting the God who so giddily and lovingly wants to invite his people back into partnership with him and into a role in a grand, cosmic project — from Abraham to Jesus to you and I.
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Here are some of the resources that were talked about in or used while planning this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring on your own!
Books: "Culture Making" by Andy Crouch; "When The Kings Come Marching In" by Richard Mouw; "Heaven is A Place on Earth" by Michael Eugene Wittmer
Scripture: Genesis 2; Psalm 48; Isaiah 2, 60; Revelation 21, 22
Other: "But Isn't The Earth Supposed to Melt Away?" blogpost by J. Richard Middleton