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St. Patrick and the hermeneutic circle as living into the holiness of life during LentSt. Patrick’s Day is more than green beer, The Pogues and 5K runs. It is a time to remember during this Lenten season the life of a former slave whose freedom meant freedom from darkness for not only Ireland but many people through the centuries. We live in the real world. This may come as a shock to some, but it remains a truth that needs to be reflected on. … There’s more to read here.
Posted in Lent, St. Patrick's Day, U2, Uncategorized
Tagged 40, Lent, Martin Heidegger, Paul Ricouer, St. Patrick's Breastplate, St. Patrick's Day, U2
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U2 and Bonhoeffer’s cantus firmus: why we need music in our theologyIn Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison, he develops an amazing reflection on the power of music to shape and transform theology. Given that I just finished a book on pop music and that I think most naturally in metaphors and similes (perhaps one of the reasons why parables of Jesus always made sense to me and the Epistles of Paul leave me generally dry and parched) Bonhoeffer’s … There’s more to read here.
Posted in Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theology, U2, Your Neighbor's Hymnal
Tagged Dietrich Bonhoeffer, music, U2, Your Neighbor's Hymnal
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3 Things U2 has that the Church needs: Life after Emergent and the “Iron Maypole” movements
Posted in art, belief, Bono, church, theology, U2, Uncategorized, Your Neighbor's Hymnal
Tagged bono, church, Jesus, music, theology, U2, Your Neighbor's Hymnal
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Vocation and the Call to Discipleship: U2, Dillard, O’Conner and Bonhoeffer
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Tagged Annie Dillard, calling, Flannery O'Connor, pastoral vocation, theology, U2
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Maundy Thursday – The empty cup, Annie Dillard, and stumbling into the Garden with U2The world of Scripture is a world of “limited good.” That is, everything that exists is perceived to exist in limited amounts, in amounts that cannot be augmented without depriving others. As we come to this point in Holy Week, we come against the limits of our lives and the limits of what is around us. After weeks of fasting and doing without, coming into Holy Week is often a … There’s more to read here.
Posted in Annie Dillard, Eucharist, Forgiveness, Holy Grail, Jesus, Lent, Maundy Thursday, theology, U2
Tagged Annie Dillard, Easter, eucharist, Jesus, Lent, Maundy Thursday, music, U2
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Lenten release: (just about) everything I learned about Lent I learned from U2As I discuss in the opening chapter of my 2010 book Freedom of the Self, popular music since the late 1960’s has been replete with claims of what it means to have identity in the world. Whether our sense of identity is bound up in the longing for love, the loss of our past, or the social injustice that removes people from seeing their true beauty and worth, popular … There’s more to read here.
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top ten albums of the decade – a long ode to 9/11Where were you on September 11th, 2001? As for me, I was nine hours ahead of my family and friends in Seattle as I was finishing a day of work. Sitting in my office in the Divinity faculty at the University of Glasgow, I received a phone call from Diana saying that “something was happening in New York” and that I should log onto the computer. An hour later I … There’s more to read here. Top Ten Albums of 2010 – a season of light and a season of darkness“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” So wrote Charles Dickens in the opening line to The Tale of Two Cities. And yet this is only the beginning. As the rest of the sentence continues:
Posted in art, church, existential musings, faith, Glee, music, Music Writing, television, theology, top ten, U2
Tagged art, church, Emergent, music, theology, top ten 2010, U2
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Glee and the “Grilled Cheesus” episode – The Supreme Court and truth of religion in public schoolsEver have that experience when you are listening to the radio or watching a television show and you know you are in the midst of a serious ‘water cooler’ moment? Back in the 90′s, episodes of “ER” and “Friends” evoked such ‘water cooler’ moments: entertainment that was sold as pop entertainment yet hit some nerve in the collective zeitgeist that once you got to work the next day everyone was … There’s more to read here.
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Tagged church, Glee, Jesus, missional, music, television, theology, youth ministry
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for those mourning U2 not playing Seattle this weekend…Some thoughts I wrote for the SPU Response magazine a while ago… http://www.spu.edu/depts/uc/response/2010-spring/features/u2.asp… There’s more to read here. |
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