tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post3539414878383426695..comments2024-02-22T17:07:38.225-08:00Comments on Diary of an Arts Pastor: Albert Mohler + Prophetic Dancingw. david o. taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08048604209388355706noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-21115155415019781842008-07-08T20:12:00.000-07:002008-07-08T20:12:00.000-07:00Whatever the guys over at Pixar are doing right ov...Whatever the guys over at Pixar are doing right over and over--and over and over and over--again is worth pay very close attention to. They're nailing story-telling every time. And my guess is that it has a lot to do with a commitment to patience and ruthless-friendly editing. God bless them. May their tribe increase.w. david o. taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08048604209388355706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-7657813572403644852008-07-08T07:10:00.000-07:002008-07-08T07:10:00.000-07:00Tears in France too. thx.Tears in France too. <BR/>thx.Kirstinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12896655336503722084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-11913797047392010462008-07-04T15:59:00.000-07:002008-07-04T15:59:00.000-07:00dt,That's great that there is somebody writing and...dt,<BR/><BR/>That's great that there is somebody writing and thinking about daily work and communicating it at the popular level. Miroslav Volf's 'Work in the Spirit' is excellent but not exactly accessible to most. But neither of these, of course, alters the fact that we have no fully-functioning theology of work, by which I mean a framework through which most mature Christians understand their work at an intuitive level. Let's hope even more people think and write about it and it begins to catch on.<BR/><BR/>In term of dancing and community, Pixar's latest masterpiece, 'WALL-E', has some interesting things to say about the loss of dancing in a totally passive consumer culture. And it says them beautifully.Kelly W. Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08109011810152591518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-88151447666570718182008-07-02T14:13:00.000-07:002008-07-02T14:13:00.000-07:00Quick response here. Kelly, thank you. As always...Quick response here. Kelly, thank you. As always, your thinking is clear-headed (big in my books) and your writing as pleasant as can be. For what it's worth, people like R. Paul Stevens are plowing huge furrows on the theology of daily life. EX: The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity; The Other Six Days: Vocation, Work and Ministry in Biblical Perspective; Seven Days of Faith. These books are excellent all.<BR/><BR/>Taylor: you should totally invite him to Sudan.<BR/><BR/>Heather, thank you.<BR/><BR/>Ahna, your comment makes me want to encourage folks to check Matt's website out, specifically his FAQ page. Very witty, surprisingly humble, wikipedia-worthy in terms of "I think I just actually learned something worth learning about, though rather odd in nature: the travails of dancing around the world for no other reason than . . . to dance silly dances with people who feel the same silly/holy feeling?"w. david o. taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08048604209388355706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-61468173412654050542008-07-02T10:32:00.000-07:002008-07-02T10:32:00.000-07:00What strikes me the most about Harding's dance mon...What strikes me the most about Harding's dance montage from so many corners of the world is the idea that, for all of the joy and exhilaration that the video embodies and inspires, there are also probably hours upon countless hours of mostly un-glorious travel represented in order to create that experience: days on airplanes and in airports; long hours in Customs; on smelly buses; perhaps with lost luggage, lost sleep, lost directions; ideas lost in translation; reams of bureaucratic red tape for visas and security clearance. <BR/><BR/>Yet these invisible hours are part of the offering of the dance. The sacrifices authenticate the joy.<BR/>The Kingdom of God is at hand, and my tired heart is made glad.Ahnaloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13869443081771774800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-75029774227087189392008-07-02T07:52:00.000-07:002008-07-02T07:52:00.000-07:00Thank you for your transcriptions and thoughtful c...Thank you for your transcriptions and thoughtful commentary on Mohler's Q&A.<BR/>Thank you even more for that video! I did cry. All I can say is, like Deborah Kerr in <I>An Affair to Remember</I>, beauty makes me cry.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11470283761189392205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-60776745268056097082008-07-01T19:52:00.000-07:002008-07-01T19:52:00.000-07:00Oh, I'm so sad about the South Korean location. It...Oh, I'm so sad about the South Korean location. It burned down a few months ago.<BR/><BR/>I don't recall him doing group things last time. I think some kids randomly got in the shot a few times.<BR/><BR/>Austin got the nod this time. Sweet! I'm going to have to invite him out to Sudan on his next trip.<BR/><BR/>I wish I could sound really cool and have something deep to saw about Mohler's thoughts, which you have expounded on, but I can't. You hit the nail on the head, nuff said. I do look forward to him following up on this. Please definitely let us know if he does.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03893752807462984392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-79414999175523320172008-07-01T13:30:00.000-07:002008-07-01T13:30:00.000-07:00Very cool video. Our western traditions of dance ...Very cool video. Our western traditions of dance have put it in such a rarified place that it's easy to forget that dancing is and should be a community art form - like singing together. Did you see him dancing in front of Stevie Ray Vaughn?<BR/><BR/> I think Mohler's comment that 'we’ve got to learn to make art the servant of the gospel' is the most problematic part of what he said, though I'm not surprised at all by this formulation. The conservative evangelical tradition simply has no fully-functioning theology of daily work so every activity gets reduced to a fairly thin version of 'serving the gospel' which primarily means witnessing. The New Testament is full of beautiful and compelling ways to understand our work in the world, from using our gifts to build up the community to building God's kingdom, but they are dangerous and unruly concepts so we tend to put them into very small boxes.<BR/><BR/>I don't think, though, that this is particular to the arts. Accountants, computer programmers, parents, and experimental performing artists all need and deserve a broader and more fully biblical vision from their leaders for how our work and our faith should relate to one another.Kelly W. Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08109011810152591518noreply@blogger.com