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"Call and response " is a halmark in jazz.  Because it was birthed in the post-slavery church jazz took on the characteristics of it's parents.  Musicians use their instruments use their to affirm and encourage each other just as congregation responds to the call of the preacher.  In ensemble community we call and respond to…

Mother's anger turns to delight after her baby survives an abortion

Thumb through your Old Testament until you happen across Habakkuk.  His oracle only takes about ten minutes to read through.  Read it out loud. You'll be struck by how something so bad can sound so good…so ugly, yet so beautiful. What do you hear?  What do you see? I see a jazz-shaped relationship with God…

America–Baskets, baskets everywhere. There are 500,000 children waiting for homes in America's foster care system.  We don't half to travel half-way around the world we live in a country with a half-million orphans. They are every age, ethnicity and background.  Notice that I said, "legally free."  That is, there are no legal encumbrances to their…
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