"More Than a Sexy Cause" - Blood:Water Embraces the 'Messy'
Blood:Water Mission took on the topic of "cause fatigue" in a creative way last Friday night to an overwhelming response. "Love (as it turns out) is a Battlefield," featuring Sarah Masen, Justin Caldwell, Sandra McCracken (w/ Derek Webb), Matthew Perryman Jones, David Dark, and Donald Miller brought together a fantastic night of music, story, video, and discussion in support of Blood:Water Mission. (story continued)
More Than a Sexy Cause
NASHVILLE--Don Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz, admits that it's difficult to keep social justice from becoming just another sexy cause, and that it's extremely difficult to maintain one's passion for changing the world--not to mention actually doing the difficult dirty work of pursuing justice in the first place.
"Raising awareness is very easy, especially in the age of Twitter, Facebook and websites," Miller said at a Blood:Water Mission (BWM) event here Friday night. "We can dress it up and make it sexy for a moment, but that's not the purpose of it. We can create this incredible image of compassion but never really ask the question, 'What is being done here?' The actual work is incredibly difficult and complex."
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