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The Jazz Theologian

I went to jail today.   A friend of mine works there and invited me to take a tour.  It's sad to see beloved creations of God sitting around, wasting away, bored to death.  The Arapahoe County Jail is over it's capacity by almost four hundred and so inmates are triple-bunked into their small cells…

…can't wait to tell you about it.

Over 500 tickets have been sold to Finding the Groove Live @ the Soiled Dove Underground.  (March 30th or 31st)  For those of you in the Denver area you can purchase tickets online at soileddove.com.  If we sell out (which we are close) then they will open up a standing room only section. This event is…

My new book, Finding the Groove:  Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith, is now readily available at your local bookstore or Amazon.com.   Zondervan has made the first chapter available on line (click here).

This week I'll be discussing by book Finding the Groove:  Composintg A Jazz-Shaped Faith on  ABQ Connect KNKT FM Tuesday Wednesday at 1:15pm MST.  Peter Benson is the host of this engaging talk show in Albuquerque, NM and I'm really  looking forward to being interviewed by this adept host. You can listen to the show live online…

Hip-Hop is here to stay. Efrem Smith not only understands this, he embraces it. And he believes other leaders in his position also must learn to embrace it, if the church is going to do its job in urban communities. Smith is the senior pastor of The Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis and coauthor of The Hip-Hop Church:…

What is jazz theology? It is what happens to our faith when we discover that jazz is more than music.  Once this is realized we begin to see jazz everywhere.  It was the great novelist, Ralph Ellison, who said that "all of American life is jazz-shaped."  Meaning that when we know what we are looking…

Tickets are on sale now for this years Jazz and Soul Nights:  Finding the Groove Live @ the Soiled Dove Underground.  The dates are Monday, March 30th, or Tuesday, March 31st.   Joining me will be Dave LeMieux & House of Soul for an evening of jazz, soul-stirring music and spoken word.  We will creatively invite you…

We as Christians need to be comfortable being marginal.  This will require two things:  Surrender and Choice. Surrender:  We are being marginalized in this country and we can be OK with that.  We live in a pluralistic society that is actively moving us out of power.  I don't think we should fight this, for power…
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