Aug 17, 2023
At present it is taken as a right that we as Christians are known as to
“have interaction the tradition” so as to evangelize. Usually “partaking the
tradition” means paying an inordinate quantity of consideration to common
industrial leisure so as to present unbelievers how hip we
are, straining to discover a “Christ-figure” in each comedian ebook film,
and making worship music as repetitive, melodically banal, and
emotionalistic as doable. Previous a sure level, “cultural
engagement” begins to look 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
lined in Joshua Gibbs’s difficult and entertaining new ebook,
Love What Lasts: Find out how 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.
Subjects embody:
- The risks of creative mediocrity
- The significance of boredom
- Why streaming has been horrible for music
- The completely 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: Find out how 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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