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The Jazz Theologian

The term "hyphenated American" was popularized in the 1910s by President Theodore Roosevelt, responding to the increasing fractionalization within the nation along ethnic lines. In an October 12, 1915 speech to the Knights of Columbus, Roosevelt said, "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do…

As you can see from my profile, I describe myself as "on the hyphen between African and American." Let’s do a quick survey… Are you an American or a hyphenated-American? Why?

Here is a final reflection inspired by James Cone (and yes, these have been pictures of the man himself). So what color is Jesus today? Jazz is all about the moment. Moments that may or may not be reproduced. Jazz is about playing the same song a new way each time because of the convergence…

I’m out of country for a few weeks…the dark continent…the place that provided much of the the source material for this thing we call Jazz. I don’t think I’ll have much time for posting so I’m going to re-run some posts from the early days of this blog experiment.  This might be good for all…

I’ve been gun shy of the Emergent Church Movement for a while now.  Yes there are aspects I like…but so much of the new postmodern Christian thing still feels very modern to me.  Especially as it pertains to race, class, gender and the lack of third word voices. When you have a movement that is…

I believe that "The Beloved Community" by Charles Marsh is a must read for anyone who beleives that theology is meant to be lived.  As a Jazz Theologian I am convinced that the knowing is in the doing; that is we know what we believe by looking at how we live.  Do we believe that…

So what is unique about America?  (hmmm…The Constitution…Baseball…and???) The answer to reaching a culture is not without but within.  In the same way that the Apostle Paul used the unique cultural setting of Mars Hill we must learn to exegete American culture for it’s contrubutions to the gospel.  Athens had a shopping mall for commerce,…

It’s hard to know where to begin when it comes to describing the culture in which we are immersed.  We are as much Modern as we are Post-modern.  Modernity has taken root as it pertains to urbanization, economics, individualism and science.  Post-modern in that we hunger for relationships while simultaneously making less long term commitments. …

If we are going to reach our nation we must understand it.  If we are going to make the gospel accessible to every person in a wholistic and culturally relevant way, then we have some hard work to do so that we might be true to the Great Commission.  The challenge for any Christian is…

Domestic—Indigenous to a particular country Missiology—The study and practice of Christian mission American Christians need a Domestic Missiology!
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