The Antithesis, Culture, and the Cultural Mandate

Thomas C. Miersma is pastor of the First Protestant Reformed Church, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Culture. The word itself brings to our minds a wide variety of ideas and thoughts. We speak of our own culture and of the culture of other nations and peoples which is different from our own -- different customs or manners or forms of dress, differences in the building and the style of homes, different forms of music and art and expression, differences in government or the institutions of a society...