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The Jazz Theologian

"Is there anything so secular that it can’t be sacred?" That’s a quote from Ruth Naomi Floyd, a Christian jazz artist that I’d like to introduce to you this week. Here’s a great article about her and her manager/producer Keith R. McKinley in Philadelphia’s Citypaper.net.

The church is not a leaderless organization.  We have a head who has established the way of life for the people of the way.  Christ leads and guides his church through the Spirit.  This is why the church (universal) is unstoppable.  If you think about it, the Holy Spirit is to the church what the…

The Fast Company story points out that "Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia revolutionized how we think about knowledge and the encyclopedia.  Now he’s taking on Internet search.  Google has $10 billion in cash and stock worth $150 billion.  Wales has $4 million, a few employees, and (so far) 1,000 or so volunteers.  And that just might…

I’ve never been one to listen to audio versions of the Bible, by and and large I found them boring.  This Lent I gave up talk radio.  My goal was to reduce the number of voices in my head this season and so I replaced the time I normally listen to the radio with listenting…

Fast Company magazine calls Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, "Google’s worst nightmare."  The reason is simple, he believes that there is a better way to do what Google (and Yahoo, Ask.com etc) do.  He is not to first to think this but he is unique in his approach. The fascinating thing is that he doesn’t know…

Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, the founder of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is all Google-eyed.  He believes that there is a better way to do online searching.  So he has started Wikia, "a collection of communities with websites that you can edit."  He figures that the open source approach that allowed him to take down the…

A blog and a book… Look who was just published…thepostmodernegro! If you’ve never checked out Anthony Smith’s blog he’s worth reading (though I wished he wrote more often…daily would be nice).  He can be found at Musings of a Postmodern Negro. This innovative thinker is now a published author. He wrote a chapter in a…

This Friday I’ll be in Harrisburg, PA speaking at the Atlantic Conference for the Brethren in Christ.  This group of Christians desire to transform their communities with Christ.  The conference is called, "Taking It To The Streets."  A phrase I use a lot as well for I believe that church is what happens when you…

One-Note-Wonders Jazz icon Sydney Bechet once gave the following instructions to a fellow musician, “I’m going to give you one note today…See how many ways you can play that note—growl it, smear it, flat it, sharp it, do anything you want to it.” There are so many notes in the scriptures that you can’t learn…
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