Countdown to Easter: Boldness and Creativity
Two clips I've run across over the last few days have impacted me particularly powerfully, and a strange feature with both of them is that I can't really pinpoint why. I guess they collectively touch upon themes or traits that I've recently been considering at some length, one that has become marginalized of late while the other has taken center stage with little tempering. The human Jesus of Nazareth possessed an immeasurable number of virtuous characteristics, but two that stand out particularly, for me, were these: Boldness and Creativity. These were also central features of the early church, and of virtually every hero of the faith I've ever come across. But like I said, boldness has gotten a bad rap of late, while creativity has become a almost a virtue without boundary. I don't have much to say about the latter development, because I think it will play itself out as more and more people engage in empty creativity such that, eventually, the market will sort its...