books & culture pushes over the rhine, two weeks in a row

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

From last week:

   http://www.christianityonline.com/ct/2000/130/11.0.html

   Books & Culture Corner: The Evangelical Culture of Euphemism, Part 2
   Should we distinguish between public and private discourse?

   [ snip ]

   Two times earlier this year -- first at Calvin College's Festival of
   Faith & Writing, and then more recently at Wheaton College -- I have
   heard a band called Over the Rhine in concert. The prime movers of Over
   the Rhine are Karin Bergquist, who does most of the singing and plays
   guitar, and her husband, Linford Detweiler, master of keyboards.

   Many of their songs have a passionate intimacy, an explosive mix of sex
   and love and longing, wit and lyrical abandon (you can hear this, for
   example, in "Faithfully Dangerous" on the recent CD, Good Dog Bad Dog).
   When they perform, they are taking the private and making it public in
   the space created by art. Risks are entailed by such performance -- not
   least to the performers themselves. But we need more such risk-takers
   in the evangelical world -- and more gatekeepers willing to give them
   the stage.

And then, just in passing, from this week's article on _Roaring Lambs_:

   http://www.christianityonline.com/ct/2000/131/11.0.html

--- Peter T. Chattaway ------------------------ petert at interchg_ubc.ca ---
 No man is an Island, entire of it self... -- John Donne, Meditation XVII
    I am a little world made cunningly... -- John Donne, Holy Sonnet V

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• Re: you knew i'd come back someday
• From: Ysobelle at aol_com

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