The secular tree: God speaking through secular art
A host says he can't help seeing Jesus everywhere — a secular nineties rock song about getting off drugs sounds to him like Paul going town to town preaching freedom. At a Christian artists' conference, a speaker answered whether secular stories are okay by asking, 'have you ever met a secular tree?' The hosts agree creation is by the hand of Yahweh, so a poem about a peaceful brook doesn't need a forced gospel pivot, while noting the deer panting for water as the natural biblical image. They mock the 'Christianly ethically sourced soap' impulse: the man wrote Psalm 15 on the bar and beats his wife.
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Have you ever met a secular tree?
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