artists can help us duel dualism

Len comments:

I think we live dualistically.. we bring our heads to church and to the office and live by our hearts on saturdays, at the theatre, at the pub (high church people) and at the stadium. So when we are at church we live in the wordy world of propositions and ideals; no place for mystics there. Of course I am generalizing which is nasty and unfair, but I think this is the main cultural road in evangelicalism… how else did we ever settle for “four spiritual laws?”

So how does this connect to ignorance of Scripture? Who needs another boring manual? Isn’t this what evangelicals largely believe the NT is.. rather than a love letter from God and an invitation to a divine Romance? And if our hearts.. affections.. are not touched, why would we go there? Meanwhile Hollywood knows how to touch our affections, and by the animation in the sports arenas and concerts we are certainly passionate people there..

Maybe this is one of the areas where the artists can help us.. if we give them a chance..
-Len Hjalmarson

Maybe we need St Mark..
and a new breed of
"disappointment artists"
most of all..