Revolutionary #4 - Marva Dawn

First impressions can be way off sometimes. If you told me a few years ago that the petite chapel speaker who started out by making us do something really kind of dorky (I think she had us pass the peace in some unconventional way ... I've grown since then) would write the kind of words that explode as you read them, I would have laughed myself silly.

Marva Dawn is a theologian who provides words to the thoughts that have been growing within my head and my heart these past few years. For instance, one of my more interesting topics of thought concerns the use of music and other forms of art in the worship of the church. Marva Dawn sums it all up:

"By singing songs from other Christian ethnic groups and from all epochs of our faith - going all the way back to our roots in Judaica and forward to the angels' songs in Heaven recorded in the Revelation - we learn the global and timeless dimensions of the people of God" (A Royal "Waste" of Time, 182).

Three cheers for Marva Dawn's ability to put some muscle on the skeleton of a thought that has been simmering in my brain for quite some time!