Imagination Manifesto

Ted Turnau is chair of Journalism and Media Studies at Anglo-American University, Prague. He speaks widely on culture, media, and Christian cultural engagement and is the author of Popologetics (P&R) and The Pop Culture Parent (New Growth Press). He and his wife Carolyn have three children and two cats. Ted Turnau is chair of Journalism and Media Studies at Anglo-American University, Prague. He speaks widely on culture, media, and Christian cultural engagement and is the author of Popologetics (P&R) and The Pop Culture Parent (New Growth Press). He and his wife Carolyn have three children and two cats. Ruth Naomi Floyd is a vocalist-composer who has been at the forefront of creating vocal jazz settings that express theology and justice for over 25 years. She leads her own multi-faceted ensemble and her recordings consist primarily of original compositions. Ruth lectures on the intersection of beauty, theology, justice, culture, and the arts, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. She is a photographer, specializing in black and white portraiture and a committed justice worker.

Foreword by Alastair Gordon xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: why a manifesto for the imagination? 1
Imagination manifesto 8
1 Why engage culture? 9
2 How not to engage culture: culture warring 25
3 How not to engage culture: Christian bubbles 42
4 The path of creative cultural engagement: planting oases 58
5 What is the imagination? 74
6 What makes an imagination Christian? 87
7 Art bears witness: stories about the purpose and
power of creative works 98
8 Bearing witness: how to support your local creatives 116
9 Words of encouragement to artists . . . and the rest of us 133
Further reading 141