Garrison Keillor
Confessing Evangelical Thanks John H. for this link to a Garrison Kiellor interview. He is entertaing. If you didn't know it, there is going to be a Prairie Home Companion movie this summer and is the reason for the interview. John grabbed some of the best quotes below. ...I feel that among writers of fiction there is a great deal of pretentious gloominess. Gloominess is nothing that an older person has a right to impose on young people. Young people can be very pessimistic and dark all on their own without us adding baggage to what they already have. And I like the idea of being 63 and trying to get people in their 20s to lighten up... ...I love the liturgical church where we say words together that are not my words and not your words. That really means a lot to me. I grew up listening to men stand up and invent prayers and the idea was that the Spirit was leading them, but in fact they were composing them in their heads and they were writing in a kind of faux King James style - big prayers and they were impressive, and they were seeking to impress, there is just is no other way around it.And in the name of Devotion they were doing these big set-piece prayers in which they were bringing in stories from Scripture and admonishing people - that's not prayer. But, when we kneel down and go through a list, and we begin with prayers for leaders of our country and for the nations of the world and then we come down to prayers for other churches and for bishops and priests, and then we come down to those who are in need and those who are sick and we think or we speak their names - to me this is prayer. This is prayer in which one throws oneself before God without a heroic pose... Here's the link to the original interview:
