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Elisa Morgan has a new book! Have you ever looked at the incredible suffering and need in this world and wondered, “What can I do?” Elisa Morgan points us to five words that Jesus spoke: “She did what she could.” (SDWSC)  Words spoken to a woman who took an alabaster jar of perfume and anointed…

Jay Leno presented as well…click below.

We sing the blues so as not to waste any pain.  We follow in the footsteps of our “kind of blue” Christ, offering our lives as statements to the renaissance that only He can bring. Ralph Ellison once said, “As blues-beset as life may be, the real secret is somehow to make life swing, to…

I’m looking forward to seeing Christian McBride & Inside Straight @ Dazzles this weekend!

We live a composed life guided by the eternal melody of the Word of God as we add our own voice. Jazz theologians honor and revere God’s word.  We spend our lives reading it, memorizing it and meditating upon its’ meaning.  However, we are careful to not put ourselves in a position of superiority over…

We have time, rather than time having us.  We develop our ear so that we might listen to the needs of others, then live and love like Jesus. No moment is just a moment.  Every moment is pregnant with the possibility of the risen Lord revealing himself to us.  Each instant of life has the…

There’s a lot of debate about Arizona’s new immigration and enforcement bill.  Have you read it?  Here it is. My question is not what you think of the bill, but what process should a Christian go through to determine what a Christian response is?  Don’t share your opinion on the bill but the process you…

We walk with Christ, embracing creative tension, joining in the mystery of life in concert. God is the most creative being in the universe.  Yet, we so often find ourselves in a rut in our relationship with him.  When the disciples walked with Jesus they weren’t bored.  They experienced the spectrum of emotions as they…

We are practicing Christians.  We have spent time in the woodshed learning the old standards.  Now we syncopate, improvise and respond to the call of a Love Supreme. Christians are called to live out our faith in community.  When Jesus called the first disciples to follow him it was as a group of individuals–E Pluribus…

At the end of Jazz Theologian Live! experiences I hand out covenant cards.   They contain a summary of what it means to consider oneself a jazz theologian. I’ll unpack each one individually over the next few posts on jazz theology.  Here’s the summary from the card: A Jazz Theologian is someone who has discovered that…
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