When our son was 6 months old, we began reading with him Can You Say Peace? by Karen Katz. It introduced the varied ways children around the world say “peace” and concluded “All around the world today, children will wish for peace, hope for peace, and ask for peace.” I remembered these pages today.
Our Lenten roses, doing their Lenten thing.
So it turns out that the new releases from U2 and Mumford & Sons that dropped on Ash Wednesday and the 3rd day in Lent respectively both incorporate the poetry of Yehuda Amichai.
Happening right now, streaming live on The Current from Minnesota: www.thecurrent.org/playlist/the...
The world may seem to be going up in flames, but we have certainly been gifted some soul-sustaining music to soundtrack these days.
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As a theologian I’ve long taught that dispensational premillennialism is a dangerously wrong theology and that Christian nationalism is a dangerously wrong stance on the church’s relationship to civil society. This shows how exceedingly dangerous it is for these two wrong perspectives to intersect.
Dr. Jerusha Neal delivers the first of her Greene Lectures in Dover Chapel at Gardner-Webb University. Her second lecture will be delivered in the same location at 1:00 PM today. Come join us!
And this SNL live performance takes the song to a whole other level: youtu.be/32TbBBpoJv0?...
This new Mumford & Sons song can function as a song of Lenten relinquishment.
FYI: the 1979 Iranian Revolution was an unintended consequence of a U.S.-backed regime change that in 1953 overthrew the government of the democratically-elected prime minister of Iran.
This Second Sunday in Lent at McGill Baptist Church in Concord, NC: “Believing the God Who Loves” (Genesis 12:1-4a; Romans 4:1-5, 13-17; John 3:1-17).
We will also pray for the world God loves. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.
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PDF proofs. Making progress toward publication!
On this 4th anniversary of the full-scale invasion by Russia, I pray that my Ukrainian friends and their fellow citizens might have "volia" and be strengthened by hope "for the glory of a world that we can't yet see."
Thanks to Angela Pancella for mentioning me (and my forthcoming book on U2’s Theological Imagination) in her reflections on U2’s surprise Ash Wednesday release of the Days of Ash EP. apancella.substack.com/p/u2s-days-o...
Registration is free, but if you plan to attend, please send an e-mail to Lisa Hollifield at the address in the press release.
Please join us next Tuesday, March 3 at Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity for our Greene Lectures in Ministry with Dr. Jerusha Neal, homiletics professor at Duke Divinity School. gardner-webb.edu/news/greene-...
This First Sunday in Lent at McGill Baptist Church in Concord, NC, with guest preacher Kheresa Harmon.
Looking forward to delivering a pair of lectures for the Rock Hill Oratory in Rock Hill, SC this morning. rockhilloratory.org/events/ponti...
🤦♂️ Despite everything I’ve noted about the intentionality of U2’s surprise release of their EP Days of Ash on Ash Wednesday, it has only just now occurred to me that they’ve done so with liturgically-correct Lenten purple!
(My book U2’s Theological Imagination: A Guide for Pilgrims on the Way releases from Cascade Books later this year.)
What a beautiful, simply expressed eschatological vision embedded in this lyric from the final track of U2’s surprise Ash Wednesday EP release Days of Ash. This one in particular has moved me to tears more than once.
U2 did note that on their own social media posts, so it should be hard to miss!
The theological imagery in the video is not subtle, nor is the application. youtu.be/Y3ziTSYyook
And on Ash Wednesday, U2 has given us a six-track EP—titled Days of Ash.
O.M.G.
