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title: You Were Created to Create! | Brian Brown
description: Shane welcomes Brian Brown, co-editor of an eye-opening new book called Why We Create.
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# [You Were Created to Create! | Brian Brown](https://colsoncenter.org/upstream/you-were-created-to-create-brian-brown/)

 Written by [Shane Morris](https://colsoncenter.org/upstream/author/shane-morris) | Aug 8, 2023 7:00:00 PM

 

 

When God created humans in His image, He gave us a mandate: to imitate His work by bringing beauty, order, art, and culture* *into the world. This has implications for our relationship with time, space, matter, language, each other, and God. To explain, Shane welcomes Brian Brown, co-editor of an eye-opening new book called *Why We Create.*

 

 

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