Some people come at it this way: “Well, art’s obviously very important-let’s have some Christian artists around the place.” It’s much more a matter of the church so nourishing three-dimensional human minds and hearts that there are people who are touched by that subversive fullness which is grace. Williams: I think that also explains why it’s very difficult for the church to commission or control art. Art reproduces that great overturning whenever it’s good art. That undercuts cultural assumptions about what is valuable, what the hierarchies are. Christianity is subversive in that sense. And sometimes people who subscribe to goodness in a programmatic way are resistant to surprise. It wants you to think about something in a way that you would not otherwise. Robinson: Literature is, in a strict etymological sense of the word, subversive. How can the church be more open to the transformative powers of the arts?
You lose options as the fiction becomes more and more realized. One of the things that is interesting when you become involved in writing a novel is how strongly voices become real to you, so that if you give a person in the novel a word or phrase that person would not use, it rings in an unpleasant way in your mind and you have to go back and fix it. All of that makes me think that the imagination really is a faculty in us which uncovers something. I’ve never-to the world’s great relief-written a novel, but I do write poems, and the experience of writing a poem is very often that sense that you half hear something and you know you’ve got to work at it, you know you’ve got to let it unfold, and you don’t quite know where it’s going and sometimes where you thought it was going is absolutely not where it ends up. You’re generating new questions, new stimuli as you work. People who write even in a small way as I do know that there’s an element of real discovery in the work of the imagination. Rowan Williams: People often suppose that imagination is Making Things Up. Never in my life.Read our latest issue or browse back issues. She said, "I have never been so embarrassed. All right has no place in this conversation." Still, her voice was soft. When they were a block from where she lived, he came across the street again. But he crossed the street and walked along beside her, across the street. "I can't help the way I was brought up," he said. Not if she tells him to go away and leave her alone." He said, "When a fellow takes a girl out to dinner, he has to see her home." "If you did completely understand, you wouldn't be following me." He was walking along almost beside her, two steps behind.
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