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The Jazz Theologian

While I've been on vacation I've thought a lot about my calling and legacy.  What is it that God has specifically designed for me and when my time comes, what do I want God and others to be able to say about me.  I'd like to share my Calling and Legacy statements here.  I am…

(Here's another installment from my current writing project) The Loveliest Lynchee Was Our Lord[1] That’s a difficult question, isn't it?  How do you follow strange fruit? Perhaps you’ve never thought of it this way before, but—as followers of Christ—we have wrestled with that for centuries.  How do we follow strange—unnatural—fruit?  After seeing a lynch victim,…

(I'm currently working on my second book.  It's a jazz-shaped take on the cross…I'll share a few excerpts this week…here's installment #1.) He stands stripped bare, arms restrained at the wrists.  His legs are lacerated on all sides; long deep grooves cover his torso and lumps of flesh are missing.  Only a slight grimace of…

A jazz theologian is someone who balances classical faith with a jazz-shaped faith.   As we take the stage our ensemble can know that: -We are practicing Christians.  Having spent sufficient time in the woodshed learning the standards we now syncopate, improvise and respond to the call of a love supreme. -We creatively embrace unresolved…

I praise my God this day: I give myself to God this day: I ask God to help me this day. Feel free to join in and pray improvisationally…what are your requests to God this day?

What is the Bible?  All too often we treat it like a science project:  Study it…develop propositions about it…defend it. Now I'm all for serious Bible study.  We can only benefit from understanding the original languages and context.  However, we can't stop at this. Approaching the Bible as a science project…dissecting it verse-by-verse, word-for-word…has great…

Tonight is our next installment of Finding the Groove Live! @ The Soiled Dove Underground.  We'll be looking at Finding Your Voice:   What if there is another way to know the Scriptures?  What if we experienced the word of God as a song that sets us free to compose, a melody that has room…

Here are two thoughtful articles in light of Michael Jackson's passing… The Pop Reconciler by Ed Gilbreath and Michael Jackson:  Soloman Sans Wisdom–The king of pop had it all, yet the most important things seemed to ellude him by Chanel Graham

We were looking for a Starbucks as the one-handed man passed by and over heard our conversation.  "The closest one is a quarter mile away in the hotel,"  he said.   He offered to take us there and added, "I play the piano.  I could give you a concert while we are there." With God,…

The Discerning Reader posted a nice review about Finding the Groove…
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