ACLU and Green Peace Of such organizations, Miller says the following: "While
few of the organizations listed to the right are specifically Christian
organizations, each of them seems to be participating, at least
to some degree, in the concerns of our God."
Douglas
Coupland "I talked to a girl recently, who said she liked Ethan
Hawke .... I know he is a fan of Douglas Coupland, which
is a good thing if you ask me."—Blue Like Jazz, p.
104
Blue
Like Jazz by Donald Miller
And His Other Works
"The
strange name of this autobiographical tale borrows from Miller's appreciation
of the free-spirit characteristic of jazz music. As jazz music is almost
impossible to score, being the language of the soul, so Miller sees
the Christian life as the meanderings of the soul with few boundaries,
rules or restrictions. Christian spirituality is "music birthed
out of freedom. Everybody sings their song the way they feel it."—Gary
Gilley, Southern View Chapel
Christianity
Today
says Donald Miller is a "cleaned-up Gen-X Ann Lamott. For those
of you who don't know who Anne
Lamott is, she is a contemplative.
"For
me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing
out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical
mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained."—Blue
Like Jazz, p. 115
See The New Missiology
Searching
for God Knows What - 2004