Brian Schrag’s Creating Local Arts Together manual has both a stirring and exhilarating effect as the reader envisions the possibility of a community’s arts used for the purposes of God’s kingdom and, at the same time, is thorough and informative with respect to the research process involved in getting to know the arts and worldview of a community.

The manual contains seven sections which correspond to the seven steps of Creating Local Arts Together. They are:

1. Meet a community and its arts
2. Specify kingdom goals
3. Select effects, content, genre, and events
4. Analyze an event containing the chosen genre
5. Spark creativity
6. Improve new works
7. Integrate and celebrate for continuity

Gunnhild Bremer has written a review of the book, downloadable below, which includes reasons why it is useful for Scripture Engagement practitioners.