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"A Love Supreme" the original Liner notes "Dear Listener: All Praise Be To God To Whom All Praise Is Due. Let us pursue Him in the righteous path. Yes it is true; “seek and ye shall find.” Only through Him can we know the most wondrous bequeathal. During the year 1957, I experienced, by the…

The key to Coltrane is found not in how or what he played but why he played the way, he did. Musically he was a genius and a trendsetter. Practicing for hours a day, he developed unprecedented speed that awed all who heard. But why did he play the way he did? What pushed him…

See you tonight!   Handful of tickets still available:  Soileddove.com (For those of you following along in the book we'll be covering chapter four, Creative Tension.)

(I interviewed Mr. Stearns on behalf of UrbanFaith.com.  Also appearing at Sojourners online) As the pastor of a church with a deep desire to love others as Christ would, I’ve recently been telling folks, “If you only read one book this year, then you must read The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns.” And that's saying…

Get your tickets now! The next chapter of Finding the Groove Live! is just around the corner:  April 28, 7pm @ the Soiled Dove Underground. This session will focus on Creative Tension and how it opens up new ways of engaging our mysterious God. As always, Dave Lemieux and House of Soul will treat our…

Tickets available online at SoiledDove.com Take a journey with Jazz Theologian, Robert Gelinas and Dave LeMieux & House of Soul.  In a beautiful marriage of the spoken word with jazz, soul, and gospel music, Robert and HOS walk us through what jazz can teach you about faith and how a “jazz-shaped faith” looks. After all,…

   Click on the link below to watch the FINDING THE GROOVE LIVE trailer. http://www.jazztheologian.com/findingthegroove/video.html

If the church is going to serve its community as Christ would, it means that we need to be as good at reading our cities as we are reading our Bibles.  This means that we are aware of what is taking place sociologically. The Denver Post did a story on the racial shifts that are…

Call & Response are a part of jazz because jazz was conceived, birthed and incubated in the church before the church abandoned IT, rejected IT and forgot IT. If improvisation highlights the fact that every person has a unique contribution to the group, call and response is the understanding that every person needs the group. …
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