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The Jazz Theologian

Barack Obama’s long awaited book, "The Audacity of Hope," hit the bookshelves today.  Up until now we have known a lot about his personal story but little about what he thinks about the issuies and his vision for the future of politics and faith. What makes him interesting to me is his openess about his…

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Desmond Tutu says that Ubuntu is a way saying that, "My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours."  It is the realization that, "A person is a person through other persons.  It is not, "I think therefore I am."  It says rather:  "I am human becasue I belong.  I participate, I share."

Ubuntu is a way of doing community among some tribes in South Africa.  When they greet each other they do not say, "Hello" or "How are you?" rather they say Sawu bona–"I see you."  When someone greets you in this manner then you reply, Sikhona–"I am here." Peter Senge writes, "the order of the exchange…

"Yet there is more to jazz than music, and it is there, paradoxically, that its influence is profound."  John F. Szwed   "If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue."  Pat Methany

Charles Mingus is one of my favorite bass musicians.  He was a genius composer and he also saw the connection between jazz and the Pentecostal movement. 

I’m dying to see "The Last King of Scotland."  It opened on Sept. 27 but in my city it’s only showing on one obscure screen and they aren’t running it until this weekend.  What gives!  It’s the story of the personal physician to Idi Amin.

Today I had the pleasure of teaching a New Testament class at my Alma Mater Colorado Christian University.

Harvey Cox, in his book, "Fire From Heaven:  The rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century."  Makes the following observations about this form of our faith.     "In recent years I have heard some of the finest jazz improvisations and chordal innovations to be found anywhere in Pentecostal…

"William J. Seymour is one of the top ten Christians of the 20th century."  Christian History Magazine. Today, Pentecostalism is one of the fastest growing forms of the Christian faith–some 600 million people follow Jesus in this manner.  Few know whom God used to launch the movement–William Seymour.  Born of former slaves and reared in…
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