Everything is Spiritual + God is Dead
December 17 
A friend lent me his copy of the DVD from Rob Bell’s Everything is Spiritual tour. I spent a third of today’s daylight watching it (slept ’til noon - oops!).
Really good, life-affirming, life-giving stuff - something that I haven’t had in awhile. The core idea is that we live in a universe that is drenched with the divine. Bell’s proposition is based in part on the idea that ancient Hebrew has no specific word for “spiritual,” which would suggest that there are things which are “not spiritual.” Anyhow, check it out if you’re into that. Packaging designed by the lovers-not-fighters at Flannel.
True to form, I spent the evening reading Ron Currie’s God is Dead. The premise is brilliant – God enters the world in the form of a woman from Darfur to experience the pain and suffering of the world firsthand. After a humorous incognito run-in with Colin Powell, he dies while fleeing the Janjawee. Once the world finds out, some things start to unravel pretty quickly, but others stay strangely the same.
Read Adam’s review if you want more. My verdict? Brilliant concept, but the execution is too implausible for me to believe it.
December 17th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I’ve yet to see Everything is Spiritual. I was actually very close to seeing him in Indy for that one. Still kind of bitter about missing out on it… But I do have to check it out sometime.
Re: the book–you are much braver than I am. After reading the short synopsis you gave, I’m not sure I would ever even pick up that book. Maybe I’m just not adventurous enough.
(BTW, I love this font in the comment field as I type. Very cool.)
December 18th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Yeah - the book’s fine. Not great, but not ruffling many of my feathers either. However, I I’m registered for an 8-credit course called “Death of God: Christianity and the Modern World” next term that I’m looking forward to. Glutton for punishment, I suppose.
Thanks for the “comment” comment, too. Oddly enough, your comment helped me track down a CSS bug I’ve been after.