Showing posts with label TAYLOR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TAYLOR. Show all posts

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Settling for Less

The great sin of most of the stories of popular culture—in film, television, novels, and the like—is not that they are violent or obscene or godless, but that they waste our time. Since I can hear only so many stories in my life, why settle for anything less than the best ones?

-Daniel Taylor, "In Praise of Stories," The Christian Imagination, ed. Leland Ryken, 417.

Friday, September 7, 2007

Not Enough

"'Jim Morrison's Grave' asks the age-old question: Does artistry justify being a weasel?...Morrison left the world some intriguing music. As far as I'm concerned, that's not enough." -Steve Taylor