Here’s a quote by James McClendon Jr., Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Fuller Theological Seminary about the importance of jazz. "Yet beneath and behind this so-called popular American music, generated as inevitably as a great city’s powerhouse generates unwanted urban smog, vibrates another music, dinstinctly American, that is all that the blur of popular sound…

Robert Webber said it best, "Worship is a verb."  He points out that Hebrew & Greek do not have a word for worship but only words to describe what we do when we worship.  The meaning of the two primary words are, "to bow down" and "to serve." This means that the majority of our…

I just learned about this cool site for those of you in the Denver area (also available in Florida, Georgia, Ohio, South Carolina and Washington). It’s scandenver.net (click here) It allows you to listen live or at your leisure–they archive footage for 48 hours and you can listen to specific times if there is an…

Langston Hughes was a giant of the renaissance (Harlem, that is).  This was his first published poem which he wrote when he was only a junior in high school.  Simply amazing… I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has…

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