Dancing in the Minefields...

Okay, so I realize I've already blogged today.

But you've got to watch this VIDEO...

Here's why.

1) If you're married, thinking about getting married, or pondering quitting being married I'm sure that song *spoke* to you.

2) I'm really encouraged by a trend I'm seeing in media.  See, for many years those of us who happen to be 'People of Faith' have been pigeonholed by some in the 'mainstream media' who think that to love Jesus means to create subpar art. Now, granted, much (if not most) of the crap created by 'Christian Media' in the past twenty years (especially in TV and Film) has been CRAP. I 'get it' and will give you that.  Decades of white-suited televangelists and poorly written, horribly acted, end-times C-list movies have rightly made most people think 'Christian' equals 'Cheesy' or 'Propaganda'.

But recently some of the work I've been seeing, in the visual and sonic arts, has me feeling like the pendulum is swinging.

If you love music there's no way you could've not loved that song up there. It's just great music. Yes, its message is ultimately Biblical, ultimately rooted in the songwriter's *experience* with 'The Son of Man', (the reference to which in the song itself is AWESOME) but that's no reason to write it off.

Because...

No artist creates in a vacuum.  Every piece of art is a mini-sermon.  It's just that for years the Christians have been outputting sub-par art for fear of compromising 'the message' or 'muddying the waters' of their faith as the honesty of the(ir) human struggle intersects with the majesty of the Eternal story.

What that demonstrates (from where I sit) is that any 'person of faith' who creates art from a place of fear, worrying that if they really say what they're thinking or feeling it might take away from the glory of the truth, hasn't really encountered the glory of the truth to begin with.

Nicely done Andrew Peterson and thanks Dave Carrol for drawing it to my attention.

T