Monday, February 11, 2008

Stuff I Read Today

A couple of quotes I ran across in the blogosphere today.

First, following up to Greg Gilbert's article about Church Music that I linked to previously, Greg adds today:

From Breitbart News:
Canadian folk rock legend Neil Young said he has lost all hope that music can change the world, as he
presented a documentary about his 2006 anti-war concert tour at the
Berlin film festival on Friday.

"I
know that the time when music could change the world is past. I really
doubt that a single song can make a difference. It is a reality," Young
told reporters.


Second, Justin Taylor brings us this very timely quote from Carl Trueman (which Justin got from Tony Reinke):

“A world, and a church, which is hooked on novelty like some
cultural equivalent of crack cocaine needs the cold, cynical eye of the
historian to stand as a prophetic witness against it. And make no
mistake, when it comes to my approach to trendy evangelical claims to
epoch-making insights, beneath the cold, cynical exterior of this
particular historian beats a heart of stone.”

-Carl Trueman, Minority Report: Unpopular thoughts on Everything from Ancient Christianity to Zen Calvinism (Christian Focus, 2008), p. 26






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