I just read "Blue Like Jazz." Wow. I was just floored by it. Not so much in the revelatory sense, but in the "here's someone who's going through exactly what I am" sense, although he's a few years ahead of me physically, and a few decades ahead in the sense of spiritual maturity and willingness to act on faith.
Anyway, I agreed with everything he had to say, as far as I can remember anyway, and found it to be a singularly honest work. Somehow it was extremely whimsical, yet grounded. I may have to stop by at the Imago Dei church next time I am in Portland.
Bottom line, if you want to read honest Christian thought (or Christian spirituality, as the author might put it), if you want to see someone working out their salvation with fear and trembling, you could do a lot worse.
Also, I saw this today: http://www.jamesdobsondoesntspeakforme.com/
I kind of doubt I'll vote for Obama, but I'm totally behind what they are trying to do here.
Dear Dr. Dobson: if you're reading, please pray for all of us who seek to follow Christ (yourself presumably included) to take a step back and legitimately ask ourselves how he would like us to participate in a democracy. How would he act? With knee-jerk pronouncements and judgments? If so, against who? It's been said before, but guess who more-or-less all of Jesus's anger was expressed towards? 1) Self-righteous religious people, and 2) those using God for profit, or those who attempt to serve both God and money. Sadly, far too many Christians in America are guilty of those very two things (myself definitely included).
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