Bruce Feiler - Where God Was Born, Abraham, Walking The Bible

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

A reader writes in response to my post on musicians finding God. [I have deleted a few things from this email to protect the identity of the writer.]

Dear Bruce,

I have greatly enjoyed your writing, and have shared your books with several friends over the years, giving them as gifts. Great work. You've provided a valuable perspective.

I don't know, however, why you ask "what's with musicians and conversion?" or something of that nature. Why is this interesting? Musicians are people, like everyone else, like writers, carpenters, poets, plumbers, etc. Rickie was inspired to work from [a book of] music and spoken word based on the words of Christ. It was an exploration, and she was caught up in that search for myriad and probably even unkown (to her, to us) reasons. It was a natural and somewhat (on Rickie's part) unpremeditated process, as are most of life's meaningful experiences. We wake up one morning and life has led us to a point where we confront and respond to some questions, and possible answers (in this case in the words of Jesus) that were not there yesterday.

Labels: The Bible in Pop Culture

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