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This film was shot on location during the Drops Like Stars 45-city international tour from the compelling speaker and pastor, Rob Bell. Follow Rob in his two-hour exploration of the endlessly complex relationship between suffering and creativity in front of a live audience.
While Bell's books Velvet Elvis and Sex God received generally strong reviews, this effort to understand the relationship between suffering and creativity feels superficial and overly self-conscious. Few readers will dispute Bell's gentle assertions: that life can be extremely difficult and capricious, that it is often difficult to find God amid suffering, that suffering has a great potential to unify disparate people, and that great bursts of creative energy can arise from pain. Bell explores these issues not by covert biblical exegesis-which was a surprising and welcome highlight of Velvet Elvis-but new-fashioned storytelling. Bell weaves inspiring stories of people who turned their suffering into something transformative, and many of these stories are memorable. They are certainly accessible: Bell draws from fiction, movies, real-life situations and his own life. These anecdotes do not make a book, however, and Bell's spare prose lacks original insights into age-old theodicy questions. Although the design and layout are first-rate, $35 is a lot of money for a 160-page book that is mostly white space. (Aug.)
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Steve Hinkle
reviewed Drops Like Stars on August 04, 2014
Drops Like Stars
If I had read this book a decade ago, I would have thought it was absolutely brilliant, but I can no longer say that.
I liked the concept and the artistic nature of it. I liked a lot of the photography. I especially liked the bit about the experiment in the sculpture class in which students had to focus on either quantity or quality of works produced. That was brilliant.
However, one of the primary themes of this book no longer jibes with me. Yes, it is true that pain, suffering, and heartache are almost palpable realities in our human jaunt, and we need to face them honestly, whether we are experiencing them ourselves or standing with others who are walking through them.
But pain, suffering, and heartache do not define us. I used to think they do and I wasted highlighters on novelists and essayists who said pithy things to this effect. The reality is, for those who follow Christ, our primary identity lies in our adoption into God's family. Pain is real and must be dealt with, but in the grand scheme, it amounts to little more than a blip compared to the glory of God.
The Apostle Paul suffered greatly in his life. Did he talk about these sufferings? Yes, he absolutely did. Did he focus on them? Absolutely not. His focus was on the surpassing greatness of Christ. In fact, he referred to his pain as "light and momentary affliction", choosing rather to focus on the glory of God.
It seems this book holds up a flickering candle next to the sun and obsesses about the heat from the candle.
I'd rather gaze at the sun.
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