Daily Archives: February 15, 2006

“A child saying a child’s prayer looks simple. And if you are content to stop there, well and good. But if you are not – and the modern world usually is not – if you want to go on and ask what is really happening – then you must be prepared for something difficult. If we ask for something more than simplicity, it is silly then to complain that the something more is not simple.” – C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity, p.40 Harper Collins edition 2001)

Lewis uses modernity here and I think this helps us understand how we want to break it all down into its componant parts… the thing I – as a modernist – must understand is how do others who are post-modern look differently at ideas… this one for instance…

Two blogs I browse pretty regularly are my friends Mark and JR. Interesteringly, each of them noted U2 on their blogs… Mark about Bono at the National Prayer Breakfast (USA) and JR talking about U2 and the Emerging church… I recommend both to you…