6/28/2023 0 Comments Blue like jazz don miller![]() ![]() When Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France the other day, or when an athlete wins any big game, there's sort of a barbaric yelp, as Walt Whitman would say. That's very much like Christian spirituality. Faith seemed to contain a lot of paradoxes that I didn't want to hurt my brain thinking about.Īlso, jazz music is just a language of the soul that you can't say with words. ![]() I used to not like God because I felt he didn't have resolve. The more I thought about it, the more I liked this as a metaphor for my spiritual journey. It is not uncommon for people to see somebody else love something and it helps them love it themselves. He loved it so much that I found that I liked jazz music. But I watched this guy playing the saxophone. It didn't seem to go somewhere or have a conclusion. You could tell he just loved playing that music.īefore I saw him, I didn't like jazz music because I thought it didn't resolve. I was coming out of the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night, and I saw a man playing the saxophone. Why did you call your book Blue Like Jazz? His latest book is Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality (Thomas Nelson.) Miller has written two books on spirituality from a uniquely Generation X perspective. Donald Miller is active in a small but effective youth ministry program at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. ![]()
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