Comments on: Storytellers: Culture’s ‘Unacknowledged Legislators’ http://mikeduran.com/?p=1149 Faith. Culture. Composition. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: janet http://mikeduran.com/?p=1149&cpage=1#comment-32675 janet Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:44:05 +0000 http://mikeduran.com/?p=1149#comment-32675 Today I went to a home school convention in MA. I was shopping for books in the big hall of vendors (about 50 show up,) when I come across Bertrand's book! Today I went to a home school convention in MA. I was shopping for books in the big hall of vendors (about 50 show up,) when I come across Bertrand’s book!

]]> By: Mike Duran http://mikeduran.com/?p=1149&cpage=1#comment-32482 Mike Duran Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:37:04 +0000 http://mikeduran.com/?p=1149#comment-32482 That is SO true about politics being "downstream from culture." Maybe the only genuinely original "work" by our politicians was the Constitution itself. Everything else seems derivative of other sources, ideas and influences. And re: storytellers. If we see the Gospel as Story, then all those who embrace it are enlisted in its perpetuation. In this sense, it's not just writers who are storytellers, but every believer is commissioned to re-tell the tale. Thanks for your comments, Heather. That is SO true about politics being “downstream from culture.” Maybe the only genuinely original “work” by our politicians was the Constitution itself. Everything else seems derivative of other sources, ideas and influences.

And re: storytellers. If we see the Gospel as Story, then all those who embrace it are enlisted in its perpetuation. In this sense, it’s not just writers who are storytellers, but every believer is commissioned to re-tell the tale. Thanks for your comments, Heather.

]]> By: Heather http://mikeduran.com/?p=1149&cpage=1#comment-32373 Heather Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:20:21 +0000 http://mikeduran.com/?p=1149#comment-32373 Amen. I feel this deeply. I'm excited about our culture returning to our story-telling roots. At a session I went to at the Transforming Culture symposium about the Church as the Patron of the arts, the guy (namely Erik Lokkesmoe) talked about the fact that politics is downstream from culture, meaning that it's not politics that shape our actions or thoughts or beliefs but art. By the time an issue reaches the Senate, it's been long decided and shaped by the artist. Makes me think of the Over the Rhine song, If a Song Could Be President. It is, really. Which makes me think of my role as story-teller. It reminds me of something Hugo talks about in one of his ramblings in Hunchback. He goes off for a chapter about architecture and it's importance in an illiterate society because then, the story was told through the architecture itself. How do we tell God's story? Amen.
I feel this deeply. I’m excited about our culture returning to our story-telling roots.
At a session I went to at the Transforming Culture symposium about the Church as the Patron of the arts, the guy (namely Erik Lokkesmoe) talked about the fact that politics is downstream from culture, meaning that it’s not politics that shape our actions or thoughts or beliefs but art. By the time an issue reaches the Senate, it’s been long decided and shaped by the artist. Makes me think of the Over the Rhine song, If a Song Could Be President. It is, really. Which makes me think of my role as story-teller.
It reminds me of something Hugo talks about in one of his ramblings in Hunchback. He goes off for a chapter about architecture and it’s importance in an illiterate society because then, the story was told through the architecture itself.
How do we tell God’s story?

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