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A Review of A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today's World by John Stonestreet & Brett Kunkle

John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle have spent their entire adult careers helping young people understand the world they're living in and engage with it in light of the biblical worldview. It's a challenge, they say, that is getting harder and harder for young people to live out. So now they've put their combined wisdom into A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today's World, the goal of which is to help the rest of us help young people live well in our cultural moment.

In Part One, they discuss what culture is and why it matters. "Culture is for humans what water is for the fish," they write, except that, "unlike...