Renewing your mind (this might take a while)

Lately I have been reading several books by N. T. Wright, including his latest book, After You Believe.

Among many other topics, he writes about being transformed by the renewing of your mind. It’s a great book, and when I have time I’ll try to write a review of it.

This post really has very little to do with N. T. Wright, but his book made me start thinking about the various ways that we have to renew our minds. There’s the obvious bad stuff we all face, but sometimes there’s also some “un-doing” that needs to take place in our theology too.

By the time you’re in your mid-forties, I suppose you can sub-consciously accumulate a lot of questionable theology. For me, some of it (ironically) came from Christian comic books.

Amy Grant, Whores, & Christian Music

I once heard someone pray years ago for Amy Grant and Michael W Smith because they were both crossing over into “secular music”. I didn’t get the sense that the prayer was for protective purposes, but more so to lead their misguided souls back to the safety and comforts of what we like to call “Christian music”.