Something I’ve been thinking about today: this refreshing discussion between Eugene Peterson and Bono regarding the Psalms. I’ve seen interviews over the years where Bono has discussed the unfiltered extreme range of emotions in the Psalter, and how their honesty, no matter how raw, angry, or dark, is a good thing. He often contrasts this with a modern form of Christianity that is decidedly less real and genuine — a “happy clappy” Christianity as he calls it; whereby everything is aggressively expressed in the most anodyne, generic, conformist, and sappy ways. I personally hate that, and feel that lack of genuineness and honesty makes Christians and Christianity unpalatable to many. Anyhow, this a cool chat. I come back to it periodically. Check it out if you’re interested.