I sat down with Dr. Tim Studstill, Director of Music and Worship for the Southern Baptist Convention of Texas, to talk about creativity in worship. Have a listen and join the conversation.
Wine Spilt Upon the Pages of an Open Bible
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The interview with Tom Studstill about wine spilt over an open Bible resonates with this odd creative bird in Melbourne, Australia. I listened and it was as if both Tom and Wesley were sitting physically across the keypad and table where I am sitting right now. A week ago I went and saw WAR HORSE, the giant puppet drama about a boy and his horse, Joey, during WWI that originated with the National Theatre of Britain. Next Thursday I attend an invitation-only launch to the Australian Ballet School student year and will meet some of the students. Later I see CHITTY CHITTY BANG-BANG performed here. Soon The Australian Ballet season 2013 will start and I am a subscriber/supporter. This is not new activity or self-entertainment. It is part of life and God’s creative gifting and my own current understanding of Nehemiah’s “gates of the city” is the Melbourne CBD Arts Centre complex. How would Tom Studstill at his home church engage a creative writer designing a full-length professional ballet? Very prophetic and very mainstream? Noel Buchanan
While I am in electronic fellowship mode with Wesley Brainard — love to know who, how and why you got that name since I read The Diary of David Brainard soon after becoming a teenage Christian, and that led me to read The Select Works of Jonathon Edwards Vols 1 and 2 at age 16 and my pastor freaked-out when he discovered what I was getting into. But also want to say as the East Coast of Australia gets hit by Cyclone Oswald, and this retired senior newspaper sub-editor watches the heartache as houses and livestock and fruit orchardfs all go under deep, dirty water — a creative part connects very deeply to my daily scripture readng time which happened to be Ecclesiastes when the ravaging damage struck for a second time here in two years. Meanwhile the sky above my head is full of smoke clouds from two large forest fires too difficult to access east and northeast of Melbourne. Creatively to read aloud without comment the Ecclesiastes text and let the current Australian weather news report visuals run on a screen — would America pray? This cycle is bigger than Hollywood docu-drama. How does the worldwide church conserve the creative awareness of someone who has worked 30 years within media? Noel Buchanan
Noel Buchanan