Beth and the Bishop

A little bit of an unusual gig last night.. Beth Rowley headlining in Oran Mor, supported earlier in the evening by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Both were exceptional.. two amazing voices!

some little scribbles from my notepad:

different questions | having the same “grammar” but different content/meaning, it’s at that point that the christian and muslim paths diverge

some tentativel thinking about kenotic (emptying) love as something that differs between christian and muslim understandings of love

misunderstandings of “law” – loads of christians still think have the impression that jewish law is the big oppressor (i.e. keeping in the vein faith in NT vs works in OT) and not “law as the heartbeat of the universe

+++rowan using “imagination” as a core christian role/value.. liked that

+++rowan clarifying some remarks he made about marx – he liked marx’s critique of humans giving life to systems, so much so that they seem like autonomous beings or insurmountable. They should be reclaimed.. brought back to human transactions and relationships – getting out of the market mythology

repeated use of “the market mythology” – not that fact that it’s pretend (that’s be the market myth maybe?) but that the market is a whole enveloping market story (or metanarrative if you like that kinda word..)

when talking about the recent atheist bus adverts in London he comments that God isn’t really needing marketing that much.. (in the sense that God is a product that needs a good bit of selling.) perhaps another little invasion of that market idea

I’ll try and add some correct quotations when/if the transcript appears here. (Some more coherent thoughts appearing from David and probably from Brodie)