Sharon Parks in Critical Years, talks about the Shipwrecks of ones life.
Sometimes the shipwreck is like the Minnow and other times its like the Titanic.
Bob Denver made a pretty awesome career about playing a slapstick castaway. And he is forever an icon in popular culture. Plus, he is the guy that could have hooked up with Ginger or Mary Ann, but resisted. That is frickin' courage. He should be a hero to those of us in recovery just on that basis alone.
Please don't think that Gilligan's Island is my favorite TV Show. Hardly. But you can't understand Survivor (or any of the ripoffs) without first knowing about the Black & White version of Gilligan's Island. I didn't read this somewhere (or maybe I did at TVBarn), but I know it. I know it is true, because I lived it.
Culture is what is missing from the Wesleyan Quadrilateral. The extreme challenge to the church is how, not to tell stories. But to the root metaphors of THE Story. Joseph Campbell helped popularize the works of Carl Jung on this issue.
There is a collective unconscious. I don't know if that reflects the mind of God, or reflects the culture. Whatever the case, there is A story. A cingular, I mean singular story. I can sing about it (decently), or play an instrument (worse) or blog about (hopefully better than average).
A C+ in the Kingdom. Better than average. Yeah, that is a freakin' life. But God doesn't call us to be average or even specialists. He calls us to into being and sends us into mission. (I know this to be true because Commission magazine told me so, in 1979).
