Authenticity & Gen X

Writer Donald Miller was a church youth worker at a small college in Portland, Oregon, who gained an audience with his postmodern spiritual memoir, Blue Like Jazz (Nelson, 2003). Miller, 33, has a new book, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road (Nelson, 2005). Actually, it's a rewrite of a book from 2000, Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance.

A typical Gen X who grew up with a absentee father, his writtings are filled with honest musings about his soul journey - about God the Father - the Wonder of creation, the procreation habits of Peguin etc.... which has helped him to find real and authentic spirituality.

I like some lines in his answers to Dick Staub Interview: Why God Is Like Jazz

"My generation simply does not respond to that. As soon as you stop talking about your faults, we turn you off. We think, "This is not true. This isn't a true person." It's not a criticism against any other generation. It's just a matter of we just don't respond to it."