my current hero, lauren winner, at a conference for christian artists a few years back::
“we live in a secular world governed by a capitalist model of scarcity. there’s never enough money in our world and there’s never enough time. all of our resources are scarce.
by contrast, our god gives us a very different economy. our god is a god of overflowing creative fecundity, a god of inexhaustible eucharistic offering. a god who, after all, multiplies loaves and fishes.
so to borrow marvus don’s phrase, one of the things that marks us as followers of that god is the consistent practice of being royally wasteful. of wasting time by praying and worshipping … christians need not, because of our god of abundance, always be concerned about the evident utility of everything we do. we are instead called to worship and reverence a god who is interested in whimsy and not just utility.”
she’s brilliant.
