“Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.” ThinkingWorldWayI CanTodayCultureNationsCommunityIssuesChangedRelevantAmerican CultureOur CommunityAfrican CultureJamestown Author:Tavis Smiley
“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.” SeemsAgeChristianDesireArtistCultureChristianityGenerationsFashionStupidLatePicksTraditionOneselfRelevantSecularShort SightedUnchristian Author:Calvin Seerveld
“As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.” PeopleMenNeedsChildrenLongHas BeensCultureWrittenGenerationsBattleLowsExpectationsExcuseAccessRelevantFuture GenerationCursingMaking ExcusesLow ExpectationsNemo Author:Michael Gove
“The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.” MenWholePastCultureHe ManConnectionsAppetiteRelevantBourgeoisBarbarians Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition