Columnist: Christians Are Arts Slackers

“There was a time when rock music inspired cultural change, asking important questions about life itself. Steve Turner, a journalist who interviewed many of these philosopher-poets, writes in his work “Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts” about how people such as Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Pete Townshend and John Lennon were “no longer simply entertainers by prophets and shamans. … Believers in a counterculture thought it exemplified a new commitment to basic human values and a rejection of greed, war, hypocrisy and exploitation.” It’s a shame that Christians aren’t contributing much to this discussion. Rather than engaging cultural beliefs and assumptions, many Christians are content to keep singing happy little salvation songs from aboard their lifeboats without regard to the people who are still struggling in the water”/ Erin Dienst , WSU Evergreen. More here .

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