Comments for Erik Willits http://erikwillits.com Just another WordPress site Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:58:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Blue Like Jazz by Erik Willits http://erikwillits.com/2012/04/blue-like-jazz/#comment-3185 Erik Willits Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:58:42 +0000 http://erikwillits.com/?p=1904#comment-3185 Tim, thanks for the interaction... always welcomed! And i don't disagree with you. I don't think art is Christian juscause it's good (which is an opinion and hard to quantify - the idea of good). But i do think lots of things that reflect the good, the true, and the beautiful are probably just as Christian if not more so than a lot of things that self-identify as "Christian". This is a big conversation that i have thought about but haven't totally thought through... i think it's worth having though! And i probably wasn't as clear here as i could have been, sorry about that. I totally get what Steve and Don are trying to do / trying to avoid, i'm with them! While at the same time i hope Christians can produce art and not fear the connection with the Christian community but rather subvert the dominate mediocrity. But that's a big job... maybe even impossible. And probably not nearly as important as just producing good art! Thanks Tim! Tim, thanks for the interaction… always welcomed!

And i don’t disagree with you. I don’t think art is Christian juscause it’s good (which is an opinion and hard to quantify – the idea of good). But i do think lots of things that reflect the good, the true, and the beautiful are probably just as Christian if not more so than a lot of things that self-identify as “Christian”. This is a big conversation that i have thought about but haven’t totally thought through… i think it’s worth having though! And i probably wasn’t as clear here as i could have been, sorry about that.

I totally get what Steve and Don are trying to do / trying to avoid, i’m with them! While at the same time i hope Christians can produce art and not fear the connection with the Christian community but rather subvert the dominate mediocrity. But that’s a big job… maybe even impossible. And probably not nearly as important as just producing good art!

Thanks Tim!

]]> Comment on Blue Like Jazz by Tim http://erikwillits.com/2012/04/blue-like-jazz/#comment-3181 Tim Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:13:58 +0000 http://erikwillits.com/?p=1904#comment-3181 Nice-looking blog here. I saw it too and really liked it as well (though there were a couple of things I posted I would have liked to have seen). I love the thought behind your 5th paragraph (good art is Christian ...) but I don't think it's accurate. Perhaps I am misunderstanding you but I'm not sure calling it a Christian movie is a good thing. Steve, Don and Dan are intentionally not calling it that because of the stigmas associated with those labels. Good art is good art. Radiohead is good art but I wouldn't call the music/message/work Christian. Spiritual maybe, or godly in the sense that it Yorke and friends imitate the creativity of God but not Christian. Anyway, appreciate the post, I agree, I hope people see it. I'm just conversing with you here. Grace and peace. Nice-looking blog here. I saw it too and really liked it as well (though there were a couple of things I posted I would have liked to have seen).
I love the thought behind your 5th paragraph (good art is Christian …) but I don’t think it’s accurate.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding you but I’m not sure calling it a Christian movie is a good thing. Steve, Don and Dan are intentionally not calling it that because of the stigmas associated with those labels.
Good art is good art. Radiohead is good art but I wouldn’t call the music/message/work Christian. Spiritual maybe, or godly in the sense that it Yorke and friends imitate the creativity of God but not Christian.
Anyway, appreciate the post, I agree, I hope people see it. I’m just conversing with you here.
Grace and peace.

]]> Comment on Blue Like Jazz by Erik Willits http://erikwillits.com/2012/04/blue-like-jazz/#comment-3176 Erik Willits Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:02:02 +0000 http://erikwillits.com/?p=1904#comment-3176 Rachel, YOU SHOULD! It's really good! Take that fella of yours on a date and go see it together! I didn't see it with Andrea the 1st time but we are planning a date night ourselves to go see. Rachel, YOU SHOULD! It’s really good! Take that fella of yours on a date and go see it together!
I didn’t see it with Andrea the 1st time but we are planning a date night ourselves to go see.

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]]> Comment on Advent, just wait… by Erik Willits http://erikwillits.com/2011/12/advent-just-wait/#comment-2295 Erik Willits Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:02:51 +0000 http://erikwillits.com/?p=1697#comment-2295 PS :: behind the video i play some ambient music. I played A New Normal - track 2 & 3 but pick your poison! PS :: behind the video i play some ambient music. I played A New Normal – track 2 & 3 but pick your poison!

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