What’s Free? Black Freedom, the Gospel of Jesus, and Its Competitors
Black freedom will come through an open-eyed engagement with the powers of this world with the sure confidence that God is with us because our cause is just.
The Good News in a Picardy Third
Death was not the end for the Holy Innocents. Through the Christ Child God made right this wrong.
Rewarding, Not Easy, Listening
The Majesty of the Flesh and Mother of God are punctuated with lyrics rooted in Bozeman’s Orthodox faith, which makes his lyrical voice distinct in America’s musical scene.
Aretha Franklin: Gospel Preacher
August 16, the world lost one of the great preachers of the gospel.
General Convention and Old Blues Men
What would it mean at General Convention if we were more conscious of the horizon of eternity?
U2’s America
U2’s America: a promised land for refugees, safeguarded by (filthy rich) pop star prophets, subverted by the wrong sort of elected officials. There are no blue-collar workers and no rural communities
Scene of the Crime
On our own, we cannot get back to the Garden. In the word picture of Genesis, angels with flaming swords block any path back.
Bob Dylan: Advent songwriter?
The central theme of “When He Returns” is not the dynamics of personal conversion, but the cosmic scale of the divine last word.