Aug 17, 2023
Right this moment it is taken without any consideration that we as Christians are referred to as to
“have interaction the tradition” with a view to evangelize. Usually “partaking the
tradition” means paying an inordinate quantity of consideration to standard
business leisure with a view to present unbelievers how hip we
are, straining to discover a “Christ-figure” in each comedian guide film,
and making worship music as repetitive, melodically banal, and
emotionalistic as attainable. Previous a sure level, “cultural
engagement” begins to appear like a noble-sounding excuse to take pleasure in
mediocrity – and Christians, sadly, are as a lot in love
with mediocre leisure as anybody else.
The novel doctrine of “cultural engagement” is only one topic
coated in Joshua Gibbs’s difficult and entertaining new guide,
Love What Lasts: The way to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity.
Joshua joins Thomas Mirus for a wide-ranging dialog about how
we select to spend our free time and why it issues.
Matters embody:
- The hazards of creative mediocrity
- The significance of boredom
- Why streaming has been horrible for music
- The totally different sorts of Christian “cultural engagers”
- Unusual and customary good issues and the way each are threatened by
the mediocre - How the “particular” apes the holy
- The meme-ification of artwork
Hyperlinks
Gibbs, Love What Lasts: The way to Save Your Soul from
Mediocrity https://circeinstitute.org/product/love-what-lasts/
Gibbs, “Movie As a Metaphysical Coup” https://circeinstitute.org/weblog/film-metaphysical-coup/
Thomas’s favourite episode of Gibbs’s
podcast, Proverbial https://exhibits.acast.com/proverbial/episodes/how-to-buy-a-bottle-of-wine
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