A lot of people have
Aug 16, 2003 Uncategorized
A lot of people have been asking me what I read. Although I can’t make any promises, I will try to drop a few thoughts on here about what I am reading and my humble opinions about the books. I may try to get a “books” section up here sometime soon, but (once again), no promises. BTW, email me if you have any books you think I should read.
So, before I tell you about the book I just read, a small commentary:
If I hear “Friends” by Michael W. Smith again, I may just go postal. And yet, that’s what I had to be subjected to when my wife wanted to watch the Dove Awards this year. It just seems like “Christian Music” has become an irrelevant and nepotistic genre. I find myself increasingly bored with not only the music but the stories of the Christians artists you read online and in other print.
Maybe that’s why this book was a breath of fresh air:
In “Spiritual Journeys,” the authors didn’t tackle cliché artists like MWS, etc. They took the unconventional approach of discussing the spiritual lives of P Diddy, Lenny Kravitz, Moby, and the like.
This book helped me look at some of the pre-conceived notions I hold about musical icons and their art. Reading tales of P Diddy’s complex and complicated spiritual story did bring thoughts of King David (of the Bible’s Old Testament) to mind. And although I am not sure I would have had the guts to make the comparison, this book did. Wading through the almost schizophrenic beliefs of Moby made my head spin, but it also made me think long and hard about my own enigmatic beliefs. It made me think that maybe presenting my dysfunctional viewpoints to the world wouldn’t make me hypocritical, but honest.
All things told, “Spiritual Journeys” stretched me in a great many ways. It’s about time someone wrote this book.
