It has been awhile since I last contributed to this blog. No reason really except that other things always seem to take precedence and, face it, one feels that at times there is nothing left to say. For example, when one sees the floods and resulting hardships affecting people you know, the books one reads or movies one sees are relatively trivial by comparison.
But after awhile, there does seem to be a buildup of thought and concern which overtakes the reticence to speak and so one is moved to venture into the blogosphere yet one more time and give words to some inklings and musings which may or may not be fully formed as ideas. At any rate, here goes. These titles form some of the "grist of my mill" over the past month.
Books read: Love Wins by Rob Bell
Deep Church - Jim Belcher
Irma Voth - Miriam Toews
Speaking the Truth - Samuel Wells
Absence of Mind - Marilynne Robinson
The Paradise of God - Norman Wirzba
Movies watched: The Hereafter - directed by Clint Eastwood
Please Give - directed by Nicole Holofcener
Into Great Silence - directed by Philip Groening
Wittgenstein - directed by Derek Jarman
Derrida - directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Hoffman
Music listened to: Small Source of Comfort - Bruce Cockburn
Get Lucky - Mark Knopfler
So Beautiful or So What - Paul Simon
Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes
It is somewhat of a mystery to me as to what lists like this mean to others, except that when I look at other blogs, I always look for lists and what people are reading, watching and listening to. Especially pastors. For me, these lists are little windows on other worlds which have the capacity to surprise, provoke and even challenge my own. That in itself would be a good thing.
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