I always enjoyed your Wheel Wars, so I thought I would start visiting your blog to see what else you’re up to.

I read your article about Christian music. It is difficult to find someone who can approach Christianity (including music) from, shall I call it a holistic perspective? Maybe that’s a poor word for it, but judging by your article, I think you know immediately what I’m talking about.

I’ve been taking a long journey in my life that has significantly changed the way I look at religion, spirituality, etc. I believe it was in “Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self” in which Anthony Thiselton is describing the shift from a modern to a postmodern society. Postmodernity is largely, at thsi point, a reaction against modernity. It is difficult to describe the postmodern perspective, he says, because in the early years of any new movement (if it turns out to be that) it is difficult to describe in positive terms what you’re looking about. At first it is so much easier to say what you don’t like about what has come before. I’ve taken that road in my own personal life as well, criticising this and that, criticising what I don’t like about church. Unfortunately, too much of that can be unhelpful, to say the least. So I began to try to find a way to live and describe the life that I want to live.

I’ve come up with this (it’s not terribly original, I’m afraid, but it is pretty authoritative): You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

And then this paraphrase comes to mind. I believe it is from Mere Christianity, and C.S. Lewis is actually quoting another author. The problem with Christianity is not that people have tried it and found it wanting. It is that they have found it difficult and left it untried.

I can attest to how many time I have found it difficult and untried…which amazingly only demonstrates how true it is.

Good seeing you. Talk to you later.