Have you heard the “sad tale of betrayal and distrust between the Church and its musicians”? Here’s a look at the love/hate relationship between faith and art that gave birth to Western music.
Archive for May 31st, 2005
Hunter S Thompson, despairing truth-seeker
Earlier this year, countercultural icon Hunter S Thompson killed himself, just as his hero Earnest Hemingway did almost half a century ago. David Griffith talks about Thompson’s earnest pursuit of truth, his strangely orthodox ideas about morality, and the despair that tormented him:
My guess is that Thompson would have considered theological quandaries… a waste [...]

