Later Virgil told me that one attendee had complained to him about my talk on the ground that he he didn't believe Waits to be a Christian, so what relevance did all of that have to us anyway? Either he missed the point or I wasn't as clear as I though I had been - or both. Oh well.
And despite my complainer's complaints (who, by the way, never complained to me directly....) I'm not the only one who has been amused by the surprising presence of God in the music and lyrics of Tom Waits. Benjamin Myers - an Australian scholar teaching systematic theology - wrote a blog not quite 3 years ago on the same theme: Tom Waits: theologian of the dysangelion .
I hadn't read his blog before putting my presentation together - but it is interesting to see where we overlapped. I am encouraged. At least I know that I'm not out in left field by myself.
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