I was watching this video over at Andy Cenci’s tumblr:
Something Makoto Fujimura says near the end…
“We have a language to celebrate waywardness…but we do not have a cultural language to bring people back home…”
And it’s haunting me.
As Christians, we need to engage culture. And I think personally, that often, we need to engage culture where it lives, using its language and its structures as a way to breed familiarity, a feeling of safety, and to let people know that we’re all in the same boat, and that we all need the same forgiveness.
So I find it intriguing that what Fujimura says is that perhaps, at least in the arts, we need to search for the other voice; that other language that is so shocking, so amazing, and so different than the current culture’s voice-so we may begin a transformation, rather than a simple engagement.
I don’t know what I think about it, but I present it to you so I can sleep. 
P.S. – Andy is the newest staff member at Parkview. He is one of the Student Ministries Directors. He’s awesome. (So is Alison too!) :)
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