I’ve found the website of a really cool guy who’s, embarrassingly enough, basically the same age as me. He seems to have a lot going on compared to my meagre attempts and activity! Anyway, his website hosts a load of basically what are now being called v-casts, or video podcasts, where he talks, to camera about life in general and stuff that’s going on.
I found his stuff through Flickr, not realising he was remotely interesting, so didn’t think anything of it when I saw his photos, but then returned to them, in another roundabout way a few days later and was compelled to see who this guy was whose images I’d inadvertently been following. Anyway, a lot of his content talks about being a Christian, about his sexuality at a Christian college in the US. These are interesting because all conflict is interesting, and seeing how he resolves these clashes of personal life is really touching. Furthermore, they’re funny. I was just watching one ‘v-cast’ and an alarm sounds in the background. At first I wasn’t sure whether it was something he’d put onto the film or not, but it can’t have been because as the screen fades to black he declares, with raised eyebrow and a laugh, ‘Guess that’s a tornado!’.
We never find out any more about the tornado, but this is what’s so funny about it: it’s calm and reflective without giving too much away, without giving himself away.
I would say that being a gay Christian has probably made me more spiritual and a better Christian than I ever was before because I’ve had to deal, to struggle, with all this stuff being thrown at me by all these people. These ideas, ‘this is wrong, this is right, reject this, reject that’, and it’s so close to the identity of who you are and it’s so intense: for such an extended period of time it’s not something you can just put away and say ‘Aww, I’ll deal with it later’, it’s an everyday part of your life. That struggle has definitely enhanced my spiritual life. Not to say that I’m not frustrated right now, but any frustration I have just lies with myself.
Ace content, easy to watch, with fun (if unattributed – who is it?! – music).
Look him up.
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