Saved by Jonathan Simcoe
Audience of One
In the midst of the unfolding crisis with work – a fundamentally spiritual problem – it seems to me that we desperately need new cultural metaphors to describe labour. What, actually, is this thing called “work”? Why do we do it? What does it afford us? What can’t it afford us?
For now, I find solace in the metaphor of work as trace. In a world... See more
For now, I find solace in the metaphor of work as trace. In a world... See more
Rebecca • [BIFFS vol. 2] Work as trace
As one scholar put it, Bach the musician was indeed "a Christian who lived with the Bible." Besides being the baroque era's greatest organist and composer, and one of the most productive geniuses in the history of Western music, Bach was also a theologian who just happened to work with a keyboard.
history • Johann Sebastian Bach
However the Lord has gifted you, whatever tools you have at your disposal, steward them toward the impression of awe, the air of redemption, a foretaste of glory. Do not write in such a way as to make your name great, but because his name is. You don’t have to write explicitly Christian material for this to be true. You simply have to write as an
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