A Creative Minority: Influencing Culture Through Redemptive Participation

by Jon Tyson

To become a creative minority is not easy because it involves maintaining strong links with the outside world while staying true to your faith, seeking not merely to keep the sacred flame burning but also to transform the larger society of which you are a part. This is a demanding and risk-laden choice.

if we do not get love right, nothing else matters.

“Narrative is our culture’s currency; he who tells the best story wins.”

Great love, like great art, takes great effort, sustained commitment, and lots of time.

In most media, truth has been reduced to sound bites, and the sensational drowns out the substantive.

• Self-Image: The idolatry of self has gone so far that people are able to speak without irony of “my truth,” as if their preference or perspective somehow creates objective reality.

The dictionary defines “post-truth” as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”