“The final cause of the decline of story runs very deep. Values, the positive/negative charges of life, are at the soul of our art. The writer shapes story around a perception of what’s worth living for and what’s worth dying for, what is foolish to pursue, the meaning of justice, truth-the essential values. …ours has [...]
Lest anyone get the impression I have been slacking off and not working on my thesis, here is another big chunk of it. This is the first half – two thirds of the section on the connection between faith and justice. As always, thoughts and comments are welcome! ———————————- The central narrative of the Bible [...]
I just picked up the book Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals and have been flipping through it. The following is from the March 24th evening prayer, but I don’t think Oscar Romero will mind us sharing his words in December… “It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. [...]
“The Gospel is everything. The Gospel is not enough.” After our art and coffee discussion this morning this idea kept running through my head. It seems to me there is this paradox when talking about art and theology. We want to make art that is evangelical without being “Christian”. We want to make art that [...]
As I’ve said–or at least hinted at–before I’m increasingly taking a relational view of justice, that when God calls us to do justice He is really calling us to live in relationship with others. So with that in mind I read through 1 Samuel 8 while reading for my thesis. Up to this point, God [...]
