Blue Like Yazz

[ab0ynamedkelly]

I've been reading Blue Like Jazz in conjunction with a graduated friend of mine, Erik, who's working here for the semester before his pro baseball season starts. I think it's a great book - it's hard for me sometimes to get over Donald Miller's anti-conservative bias, but that's neither here nor there. Last night I was lying awake in bed having a

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[kentathen]

I had a similar situation with him. I saw him speak at this church I went to on Sunday nights before I had ever heard of the book. He greatly offended me more than once, one time by directly attacking D. James Kennedy. I thought to myself, "how did Michael Moore disguise himself as a Christian author like this?" So I read his book with simply to be educated on it when I planned to landblast it every time someone brought it up. I found myself as time went on growing fond of much that he had to say, and found that my disagreements with him were mostly petty. I posted earlier on my journal about one part in particular that I liked. It goes to show you that we need to work hard to have love and grace for people, even for people in the Church.

[kentathen]

ps. you cm pray for me, not really for midterms, but there's some other stuff.

[ab0ynamedkelly]

i already do.

i find it really interesting that miller comes to a lot of the same conclusions as the traditional church, but that he simply has found them in a circuitous sort of manner. i really just don't like that he feels he has to criticize the church at every turn. sure it has its problems, but his hippie sort of Christians can err as well on the opposite side of things, and I don't think he should ignore the fact that many truths can be found through traditional channels as well as unconventional ones.

we should catch up sometime. you home for thanksgiving?