Further to my previous post on Thursday, I got an email this morning from Joe Rhodes of the Los Angeles Magazine. He has interviewed Burnett for the July issue. The piece is not available online, but he kindly sent me a PDF of it. If you’re anywhere near LA I highly recommend you buy it and read it. There is so much about his history, music, art and spirituality.
With Joe’s permission I quote the final paragraph of the interview, because it restates and develops the quote I gave in Thursday’s blog:
“I am interested in getting away from the world of ideas and more into the world where science and religion and art are all the same thing,” he says. “I’m interested in what all those things say about life, about something outside of you and inside of you at the same time. Getting to that place between heaven and earth where, you know, it’s neither one.”
Seems to me like a healthy belief that all truth is God’s truth, leading to an openness about when and where God may speak, rather than thinking God is constricted within a religious straitjacket of our making. And of course we are called to live somewhere between heaven and earth now, in that time of overlap between the kingdom of God that is breaking in and the kingdom of darkness.
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