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Sep. 8th, 2004 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfAll God's Children, an article on Biola University, a Christian college. One where the Intro to Mass Media class talks about Nick Cage and Bjork and Sigur Ros. Nifty. (via Slacktivist, who has an interesting post on this as well)
Detweiler seemed agitated. He kept raising the volume louder and louder. He banged his eraser against the dry-erase board, where he had written ''truth'' and ''beauty.'' He told the students that creative people who start with a message are propagandists, not artists. The teachings of Jesus, he said, weren't straightfoward moral lessons. ''People had a hard time following Jesus,'' he said.
At the end of class, Detweiler sighed. ''What's the point of today, guys?''
No one had an answer.
''The spread of indigenous cultural music is pushing hard against exclusivism,'' he said. ''Christ is going to be a tough sell in this world, and I think you're not ready for it. I think you might need to figure out where God is in this music crossing the globe.''
Detweiler seemed agitated. He kept raising the volume louder and louder. He banged his eraser against the dry-erase board, where he had written ''truth'' and ''beauty.'' He told the students that creative people who start with a message are propagandists, not artists. The teachings of Jesus, he said, weren't straightfoward moral lessons. ''People had a hard time following Jesus,'' he said.
At the end of class, Detweiler sighed. ''What's the point of today, guys?''
No one had an answer.
''The spread of indigenous cultural music is pushing hard against exclusivism,'' he said. ''Christ is going to be a tough sell in this world, and I think you're not ready for it. I think you might need to figure out where God is in this music crossing the globe.''
