Umhau

by Cary Umhau

“I was born in a house with the television always on,” sing David Byrne and the Talking Heads in their song Love for Sale. What could be truer than that for most of us? Yet even with the television blaring (and sometimes because of the television blaring), we manage to hear God’s voice in the culture…because He’s everywhere, and not only in a monastery.

We know that, but we also feel a certain tension. Christians live in a gap between “Be still and know that I am God” and Marshall McLuhan’s “the medium is the message.” I for one often feel the pinch, wondering how to mind the gap.