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Like Any Prince

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TylerR
Fri, 04/22/16 4:55 am

Ironically, the Babylon Bee published this lovely piece yesterday, “Man Capitalizes On Death Of Prince To Clarify He Wasn’t Prince Of Peace:”

When asked if comparing Prince to the Lord Jesus Christ in a moment like this might be bad form, or at least beside the point, Minter told reporters, “Listen, I’m missional. I’m always looking for opportunities to leverage human headlines for gospel good.”

Tyler is a pastor in Olympia, WA and works in State government.

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Jim
Mon, 04/25/16 5:25 pm

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/april-web-only/remembering-pri…

He once sang, “I’m not a woman / I’m not a man / I’m something you will never understand.” Like Bowie, he wanted to defy our cultural categories and transcend them—to be something more than human.

Interestingly, that lyric comes from “I Would Die 4 U,” with its sexual-Messianic overtones. In a secularized world drained of spirituality, Prince appeared to be an outlier, a magical person, a visitor from either a past or future where spirituality remained vibrant and mystery abounds. His public persona was a curated effort at sustaining that sense of possibility. It’s no wonder his work featured sexuality so prominently: Sex is one of the few places that a secularized imagination maintains space for the possibility of transcendence.

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