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Word of the day: ‘godforsakenness’ – Bonhoeffer on Good Friday

A few years back, Stephen Colbert made news by making a new word – ‘truthiness’ – and successfully entering the word into the cultural zeitgeist.  Often we find ourselves at an impasse of reason and emotion where language shows its limits and the ‘perfect’ word to express our deepest thoughts, fears, and emotions escape us.

Good Friday has always been such a time.

I honestly never know how to feel … There’s more to read here.

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06/10/2011
Jeff's latest book, Your Neighbor's Hymnal, provides a winsome and thoughtful exploration of popular music, from rock to hip-hop to metal to soul, as a vital source contemporary culture continues to go to learn about faith, hope, and love. Where some Christians have kept their focus only on a hymnal found in their church or formed by the genre of Contemporary Christian Music, Keuss argues that your neighbor's hymnal is filled with great music that God is using and deserves a deeper listen. Offering forty songs spanning time and genres, each section includes a number of representative reflections on the history and artist that created the song, reflections on its lyrical content, and theological and biblical connections that will hopefully show some ways in which the song illustrates how your neighbor is hearing, seeking, and finding faith, hope, and love through popular music.

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Presenter and Co-Chair – Paul Ricoeur Consultation at American Academy of Religion conference, San Francisco, USA – Nov. 19 to 22, 2011
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