This thought springs from my observation of music, but I think that it has broader application to both the broader creative world and culture more generally, so I’ll state it in generic terms.
It seems that sadness, angst, anger and melancholy — in short, negative emotions — are somehow considered to be much more honest (and don’t forget that buzz word […]
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I haven’t felt any compulsion to write lately, so I haven’t.
If you’re hurting for interesting reading, go check out the church and postmodern culture’s beginning engagement with Jack Caputo’s What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The series announcement states that there will be 6 engagements, each interacting with a successive chapter. The first two have already appeared.
Jaclyn and I had a great chat yesterday about how our culture avoids suffering. One of the reasons that we have so much difficulty understanding the Gospel in our culture is that our comfort-driven society teaches us that suffering is something to be cured, not endured.
Examples abound: have a headache? Take a Tylenol (or Advil, or […]
For today’s NT Theology class, we went to my prof’s house and watched The Last Temptation of Christ. Released in 1988, this movie took a lot of flak from Christians over its exploration of a fictional version of Jesus’ life and death. But I honestly think that most people just didn’t watch it and jumped […]
There’s been a few things in the last couple of days that’s gotten me thinking on the topic of death and the way we in our culture handle its reality. The most obvious one was the recent death of Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin. Here’s a guy that, frankly, was probably popular because he so […]
