Siedell on culture, Christianity and devotion
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I’ve just got around to reading Daniel Siedell’s post Great Culture (orginally an address to CIVA) Brilliant. Stop reading my blog and go and read his now. If you need some convincing, try this…
Let me suggest that neither “Christianity” nor “culture” per se make modern society uncomfortable. It is the self-sacrificial and uncompromising pursuit of greatness and quality in these practices, a life singularly devoted to them, which condemns the virtues of contemporary professional and personal life: compromise, mediocrity, and personal comfort that makes modern society uncomfortable.
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Are we now too sophisticated, too enlightened, too iconoclastic to believe in the myths of great art, great culture, even the possibility of a great life devoted to Christ? We’re not humble. We’re cowards.
A random walk over culture, art, christianity, etc. with occasional photographs...