The AUSA Podcast

Hey friends! Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! This week we continue our conversation about culture making with our friend and fellow CAT, Corey Adams! In this episode, we talk about how to identify where you hold influence, what that means, and we go through some of the qualities of a good leader. Once you realize the places and groups you influence it can be daunting to navigate that responsibility, so this episode is for you — people who need a little push to realize that they are a leader, and people figuring out how to lead well.

Whether we feel like it or not, know it or not, or want to be or not, we are all influencing somebody else. It's important to be aware of this so we can do it well and set the tone of the spaces we are a part of rather than just going with the flow. That's ultimately what culture making (our responsibility of creating new things and cultivating already existing things to be better and more beautiful) is all about — being a thermostat, not a thermometer; being active rather than reactive.

We think culture making is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

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Books: "Culture Making" by Andy Crouch, Psalm 1

Welcome to this week’s episode of The AUSA Podcast! This week we continue our conversation about culture making with Katelyn Bass, the social media manager for @au411, and Braelyn Moore, one of our event coordinators! Today, we sit down to take a look at social media to talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly. We discuss the things that social media makes possible — from good things like education, advocacy, connection, and creative inspiration to bad things like insecurity, comparison, skewed expectations for yourself and others, and hustle culture. We get personal this episode, sharing stories from our own life of the ways we use to view social media, how that effected how we viewed ourselves and others, and how we broke out of that wrong thinking. We also look at the beautiful things about social media! We talk about what it looks like to create new things and cultivate already existent things to be better and more beautiful within a digital context, and how we can find freedom in that.

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

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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; "To Hell With the Hustle" by Jefferson Bethke; "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry" by John Mark Comer; "Abba's Child" by Brennan Manning

Welcome to The AUSA Podcast! For the first half of this season, we took a look at the ins and outs of culture making—we've talked about creating and ruling, attitudes and actions, collaboration, and more. For these past few episodes, we wanted to take a look at the more practical side. This week we sit with James Hanson to talk a bit about the ways that Campus Ministries seeks to create and cultivate culture here on campus. We talk (again) about setting boundaries so that creativity and community can flourish; what partnership and collaboration looks like in ministry; what a call to discipleship means for you and I; and what it means to actually do the things we were called ago and equipped for.

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

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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

Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! For the past few episodes, we've been looking at the ins and outs of culture making—we've talked about creating and ruling, take a look at the more practical side. This week we sat down with Jon Gropp and Lauren Brett to talk a bit about the ways that Student Development creates and cultivates culture here on campus. We talk about setting boundaries—both individually and collectively—so that creativity and community can flourish; what partnership and collaboration looks like between students and faculty/staff; what it looks like to handle conflict and discipline in a way that honors God's design for human relationships, and more!

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

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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

"Adorning the Dark" by Andrew Peterson

"Every Good Endeavor" by Timothy Keller

Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! For the past few episodes, we've been looking at the ins and outs of culture making—we've talked about creating and ruling, take a look at the more practical side. This week we sit down with Luke Springer and Jose Brown to talk a bit about the ways that Residence Life creates and cultivates culture here on campus. We talk about setting boundaries so that creativity, community, and relationships can flourish; what partnership and collaboration looks like on a college campus; and more! 

We will miss you next week over Spring break—we hope it's so restful and fun for you!—but we'll have some fun events for when we all get back!

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

To keep up with all things AU Student Activities, visit our Instagram, @au411!

To get text reminders and updates about events, text AU411 to 54855! We promise—no spam, only fun.

For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

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

Welcome to this week’s episode of The AUSA Podcast! This week we continue our conversation about culture making with Matthew McCall, talking about Gestures and Postures—or, in more accessible language, Actions and Attitudes. Think of a posture as your heart and mind's attitude toward something, the way you're positioned; think of a gesture as an overflowing of that attitude into your everyday actions. In other words, your attitude and your actions. We begin by breaking down the reasons behind why the cultural postures of condemning, critiquing, copying, or consuming culture aren't enough for creating change, and we look at the different gestures that flow from them. We chat a bit about the book of James and look at the relationship between the heart and the hands. Gestures can be good indicators of an unhealthy (or healthy) posture, and a lack of action might be symptomatic of some deeper problems—especially for the Christian who isn't doing his Faith.

We end by talking about how a new posture changes your gestures, but the way to change posture is to alter your gestures. In other words, the best way to change your attitude so that you can actually engage with culture in a healthy way and create new things is to actually do things. If you want to incite any lasting change, you need to use creativity—you need to actually create new culture.

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

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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; "Liturgy of the Ordinary" by Tish Harrison Warren; James 1

Welcome to this week’s episode of The AUSA Podcast! Today, we continue our conversation about culture making with our friend and fellow member of the CAT, Booker! Join us as we sit down to talk about two things: divine partnership and human collaboration. We take a look at Genesis 2 (again, it's just that good!) to see how God invites Man into partnership with Him from the very beginning: He wants Man to participate in this project that He has started. God realizes that it is not good for Man to be alone, so He makes a helper—the Hebrew word here, "ezer," is actually more of a military term that means "deliverer"—for him, Woman, so that he can have someone to work alongside as he works with God. 

We talk about how the means by which the Bible was created reinforces this idea that God wants to partner with humanity, and we track this theme all the way through the Bible until we arrive at Jesus, where divine partnership and human collaboration culminate in his ministry. After Jesus leaves his disciples, they continue the blending of partnership and collaboration by furthering the Church with the "help" (a similar idea to "ezer" from Genesis) of the Holy Spirit. We end out the episode by outlining some benefits of collaboration, and thinking through some practical ways that we can fight pride and cultivate attitudes of partnership and collaboration in our own lives. Thanks for listening!

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

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For more information about events and to RSVP, head over to AUnited!

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! Matthew 17v24-27 (the coins in the fish's mouth), The Acts of The Apostles (collaboration as the Church), and, as always, Genesis 1–3 (Man and Woman working together to partner with God)

Welcome to this week’s episode of The AUSA Podcast! Today, we continue our conversation about culture making with Lindsey Gatlin! Join us as we sit down to talk about creativity, cultivation, leadership, prayer, and wisdom. If God is a Creator and a Ruler, then so are we. And if we are Creators and Rulers, then we are Artists and Gardeners. Because we are created in God's image and likeness, we have a responsibility to create and cultivate—to both make culture and keep culture. In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to be practiced in and receptive to the skills of creating and cultivating, and we translate the idea of being Artists and Gardeners into a culturally creative context. 

We break down the ways that Artists and Gardeners see and go about the world, and we explore the ways in which we can do that ourselves—the ways in which we can actually do something to influence culture. Creativity is the only way to incite lasting change, and we cannot create without cultivation. We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! 

Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening! 

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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, "Into the Silent Land" by Martin Laird, "Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton, "Adorning the Dark" by Andrew Peterson, and, as always, Genesis 1–3

Welcome to this week’s episode of The AUSA Podcast! Today, we continue our conversation about culture making with Drew Correll, breaking down Genesis 1-2 to take a look at our responsibility as individuals created in the image and likeness of God. The opening pages of the Bible make a bold claim that invites us to rethink what being human means: God wants to partner with us in creation, and he created us like him in order that we can do so. We are made in the image of God—we communicate a representative relationship from God toward creation as rulers over the earth. And we are made in the likeness of God—we are expressions of God’s creative power and are privileged in sharing in everything God is and does as we create and rule alongside him.

We answer the question, “What image of God is conveyed in the first pages of the Bible?” and talk a little bit about what the image of God even is, discussing some the context of the time Genesis was written. We discover that God is both Creator and Ruler—breather of possibilities and setter of limits. We explore how Christ is a fulfillment of both of these things—image and likeness—and begin to look at next week’s question, “How do we take part in the renewed projects of creation and ambassadorship through Jesus?”

We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode or anything peaked your interest, we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

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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, Genesis 1v26-29 and 2v5-8, 15-20

Other: BibleProject Blog Post – “What Does It Mean To Be Human?”

Welcome back to The AUSA Podcast! Join Brenna, Luke, Annalee, and Michael as we begin this season's discussion on culture and culture making by looking at some of the different definitions of "culture" that were presented by you guys! You submitted some great thoughts to our Instagram Story, but for the purposes of this season, we focus in on one specific definition—"culture is what human beings make of the world." We talk about how we as Christians should engage with culture, what cultural change can look like, what the possibilities of limitations allow. We close out by taking one of our events—Food Truck Pop-Up—and running it through a few questions for diagnosing culture.

Like she mentioned in the episode, if you want a copy of "Culture Making," go ahead and email Brenna at [email protected]! We think culture is very important, so if you enjoyed this episode we'd love to start a conversation! Do us a favor and share it with your friends, and if you have thoughts or questions, you can DM us on Instagram @au411. Thanks for listening!

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Here are some of the resources we talked about in this episode if you’re curious about doing some in-depth exploring of some of what we talked about on your own!

Books: "Culture Making" by Andy Crouch