Monday 2 August 2010

christian and cool??

Mark ronson & Business Intl ‘bang bang bang‘. I’m a sucker for a spot of style and syncopated rhythm. It makes me think, is it possible for christian faith to be expressed, incarnated, in ways that are cool?? Singing some church choruses of a Sunday is frankly the antithesis, but I’m quite sure it’s possible. What enables cool creativity? I guess you first need to ‘free your mind’, be open to many possibilities, like a painter’s palette. And to have a sense of poise and proportion, for what ‘works’, which I guess is part natural, part developed…

Q of the day: How can you justify spending money on luxuries like cinema when there are is gross poverty in the world?

1 comment:

Billy said...

You're still alive :-)

One person's cool is another person's lame.
If you are not what you consider to be cool, don't even try to be something you are not. You are just being untrue to yoursels and others will definately pick up on this false persona.

As for spending money etc 1. living like a hermit would be considered very uncool. 2. You cant live life worrying about every injustice 3. don't you believe your god cares for the hungry (despite the evidence?) 4. Romans 12 (if you believe that stuff)tells you it's OK to have possessions. Think about how it allows you to interact with folk and allows them the opportunity to tell you that there is no god :-)