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Henry Van Til is credited with coining the aphorism culture is religion externalized... If we assume by these words that religion is an internal, private affair which occasionally becomes externalized when it interfaces with culture, we have missed the point. Our Christian faith is to effect all areas of our life in obvious, overt ways. Van Til was describing an inevitable process: artifacts necessarily reveal the worldview of the individual or group who makes them. Thus culture is the concrete expression of a society's religious and philosophical commitments; it flows out of the heart - as it were - of the society that produces it. (Plowing in Hope, 15-16. David Hegeman)