Culture, as the term is generally used, refers to the fabric of human living woven of skills, arts, customs, traditions, technology, politics, education, language, and the like.
Regarding what suited her sense of doing good, Mary Baker Eddy quotes the proverb of a Talmudical philosopher, "The noblest charity is to prevent a man from accepting charity; and the best alms are to show and to enable a man to dispense with alms.
Years ago, before the telephone and the internal-combustion engine brought cities closer together, the parish church was traditionally the center of most Christian communities.
