While some of his points were certainly well taken, what struck me more about the letter was the emotion behind it. He was angry. Really angry. He closed with the interesting statement that if I didn’t respond to his criticism, he would send his letter to major Christian magazines and “expose” our creative short-comings to the entire Christian world. A dream is a powerful thing. Letters like his made me realize just how much emotion people had invested in my dream. Not just the artists, designers, and businesspeople who had moved their families across the country to actively join the effort,
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