tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post4240302906439676003..comments2024-03-22T10:51:23.567-05:00Comments on Faith, Fiction, Friends: The Baptized ImaginationGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-65941450614102166652011-08-03T17:45:54.427-05:002011-08-03T17:45:54.427-05:00I love the term "baptized imagination" -...I love the term "baptized imagination" -- and you, my friend, I would just have called gifted. <br /><br />And it's good to be a conundrum -- folks pay attention to ya.<br /><br />I know I do.H. Gillhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16866823621648796335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-4546742861057483782011-08-01T22:10:25.861-05:002011-08-01T22:10:25.861-05:00I'm glad I know a conundrum like you. :)I'm glad I know a conundrum like you. :)Jennifer @ JenniferDukesLee.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15934656581948719407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-63028252371015896572011-08-01T20:17:02.769-05:002011-08-01T20:17:02.769-05:00Yes, a baptized imagination... again a tangible pi...Yes, a baptized imagination... again a tangible picture for me to hold onto... of being filled daily with the presence of the Holy Spirit. Your God-given creative presence in the corporate settings reminded me of brother Lawrence's conversations in Practice of the Presence of God. To brother Lawrence, a humble cook,it didn't matter if he were in the chaos of the kitchen (corporate) with clamoring pots and pans (read noisy/egotistical executives)or on his knees in prayer. His communion with God was foremost in his mind and heart allowing him the freedom to rise above the ruckus. Who would have thought that such focus could allow for such creativity?! Your presence in those corporate settings was/are God ordained.Patriciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00991524097486901864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-18596961508606480902011-08-01T18:13:59.033-05:002011-08-01T18:13:59.033-05:00Glynn - Yes, Christian and imaginative is truly a ...Glynn - Yes, Christian and imaginative is truly a conundrum! You keep them guessing!<br /><br />I love Walking on Water which Laura mentioned above. It changed how I think about the creative life. Madeleine L'Engle, in general, changed how I think about it, in fact.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-57050365625270084872011-08-01T14:07:30.452-05:002011-08-01T14:07:30.452-05:00Most of us spend our lives working, and the enviro...Most of us spend our lives working, and the environments in which we work are usually not of our own design. Imagination can make a difference, and, of course, faith requires imagination. Glynn, this may be how you succeed in spite of everything in corporate culture that is incongenial. <br /><br />But, re: Laura's comment about dangerous art, seeing and reporting what is in the environments in which I've worked over the years, makes most of what I write and have written unpalatable to Christians. What I find in my imagination makes my stories and essays too Christian for the mainstream markets. This is something of a dilemma!<br /><br />Here is a link to a story that has been in the desk drawer since about 1989, that conveys a youthful perspective from even further back: <a href="http://godwrestling.blogspot.com/2011/08/working-on-railroad-circa-1970.html" rel="nofollow">Working on the Railroad circa 1970</a><br /><br />If any of you get through it, I'm open to criticism.Michael Dodarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10218455310804805561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-88682784021458707822011-08-01T11:10:13.615-05:002011-08-01T11:10:13.615-05:00Very interesting.<i>Very</i> interesting.Michael Dodarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10218455310804805561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-11347601054199641492011-08-01T10:42:56.844-05:002011-08-01T10:42:56.844-05:00Cindee and Sandra both said it: great post and we ...Cindee and Sandra both said it: great post and we wouldn't want you any other way! Blessings to you!lynnmosherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150393635514942267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-26060442393830936722011-08-01T08:17:10.523-05:002011-08-01T08:17:10.523-05:00I love that term "baptized imagination"....I love that term "baptized imagination". It gives me a bit of freedom. In Madeline L'Engle's book Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (which I am reading now also--as a sort of companion to Luci's book), she talks a lot about how Christians have often been suspicious of imagination--decrying certain stories as not so good and all that. But she makes a good argument for how our imaginations open us up to God. I think there are boundaries to everything, of course, but this explains to me why I am often more comfortable with some stories that some Christians find offensive or "dangerous". My imagination is baptized. Sealed. I see it all from a Kingdom perspective. <br /><br />Great story, Glynn. Are you still in a conundrum? Still succeeding at it, I see :).Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08263995875732832349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-90416695693914172932011-08-01T08:11:12.873-05:002011-08-01T08:11:12.873-05:00And we wouldn't want you otherwise!And we wouldn't want you otherwise!Sandra Heska Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770393615748405966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-17223432866095159462011-08-01T07:49:23.233-05:002011-08-01T07:49:23.233-05:00Glynn, great post! Isn't that how it's su...Glynn, great post! Isn't that how it's supposed to be? That others look at us and notice something different? Christ in us? For how can it be otherwise when we are filled with the Spirit? We are either full and spilling over or empty. We can't have just a little of the Holy Spirit.Cindee Snider Rehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14997207017359343963noreply@blogger.com