Matthew Winant - Blog #13 (outside reading 5/7)

I have also started a book by Donald Miller who first came on the religious studies scene with his book Blue Like Jazz. The book that I am reading is called Searching for God Knows What. It is an amusing play on words to portray seeking what your calling is compared to a personalized statement of searching for whatever. Miller talks about the conventions made by contemporary believers and nonbelievers alike. Miller spends one chapter alone on the images that the Western world has of Jesus, someone who is beautiful and most importantly white. However, it is Scriptural evident that Jesus was not the most attractive person in Judea, but that because he was from the Middle East it is not difficult to see that he was tan without the perfect brown hair we see of him today. Miller combats claims of why God left Earth and why He allows suffering to happen. I encourage everyone to take a glance at this book as well as his first as he easily paints a picture of who Jesus is and why came to Earth.