Things mean stuff
March 3, 2010
This is an interview with Ken Myers, who is a great thinker and cultural critic. His book, All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes: Christians and Popular Culture, has influenced a generation of Christians in our dealings with popular culture. He podcasts at Mars Hill Audio.
This interview covers such wide-ranging topics as movies, hymnals versus projection screens, and the meaning of technology, and I hope it will give you a taste of the kind of thinking that behooves us as followers of Christ. The central point of the interview, and I think the central point of all of Myers’ thinking, is that there is meaning in all cultural products. In other words, everything means something. This is a very counter-cultural idea, and I hope you can begin to see how Myers fleshes it out. (You might want to watch it in small portions, or else carve out an hour to see the whole thing, because it deserves your full attention. I’m about to watch it again.)
Interview with Ken Myers from Southeastern Seminary on Vimeo.
(via Justin Taylor)