This morning I hurriedly finished packing for a night away. Ah, that it were to a spa for a massage and pedicure, but alas, it was to Jefferson City for a meeting. Caleb, who always gets up the latest of the three of us, somehow is always ready to go the earliest. So I asked him to put my travelin' bags in the car while I finished getting ready. He said he would if we could listen to a CD with music he wanted me to hear in the car on the way to school. I said yes. Here are the artists whom I heard by virtue of my son's ecclectic taste this a.m.:
--Atmosphere (the first cut he quickly turned off even before the words began..."that one's too harsh" he said)
--Bad Religion (whom I recognized right off...I STILL am regretting that I never did start up that group at Broadway to discuss their Process of Belief album...this cut American Jesus was from another album...But, hey, check out the book in the picture...Has anyone read this??? It looks like it's right up my alley..just published in 06)
--Roots (hip-hop---Not my favorite genre*(see below) though I appreciate clever writing---Caleb really likes some of the artisits--"Move to it, mom, Move to it" he said this a.m. as he showed me some of his sitting-down moves.
--Bad Religion again
--The Rudiments--Can't exactly place what kind of music that was...but Caleb loves it
and I know I told him this morning that this was definitely NOT my favorite band
--Atmosphere again-this one milder, I suppose, relatively speaking.
Sorry I can't remember many of the names of the cuts. But I think I did well to remember the bands...actually I had to write them down right after I dropped the kids off for school.
I am grateful to have tonight in a pretty nice room in Jeff City before a breakfast meeting with our Spiritual Formation and Social Justice team and UM state legislatoris and our bishop and then a meeting afterward. I am tired.
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(note about hip hop)* However, for some strange reason, Gorillaz' Clint Eastwood (clean version) has been spinning around in my head for days...I keep having to ask one of the kids "What is that song?" And then I sing the tune a bit....at least one time Caleb has mentioned that he suggests I think about singing the words around too many people...for example "I'm not happy, I'm feeling glad...I've got sunshine, in a bag" because it probably doesn't have to do with the juicy fruit gum in my purse, but another kind of sunshine in another kind of bag...people might get the wrong idea he thinks. I think it's not that part of the lyric that caught me...it's the part that repeats over and over "The future's comin' on, it's comin' on" and somehow deep in my mind someplace I pulled out this song from my memory banks because I've been thinking so much about Pathways and the future of our conference. And postmodernity and our denomination. The future is comin' on, that's for sure.
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Can't see the graphic, but I'm guessing it's the cover of "American Jesus" by Stephen Prothero. I met him last year when he led a seminar at Perkins Theological School for the Laity. Bought the book, read a chapter, and it's now in that illustrious stack abandoned by this serial bookstarter. I'm sure it's intriguing; I just don't have the focus for it right now.
Hey Amy
Sorry the photo didn't come through. The book is "Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irelevant?: A professor and a punk rocker discuss science, religion, naturalism and Christianity" by Preston Jones in conversation with Greg Gaffin of Bad REligion fame. I am not sure who Preston Jones is, but from what I gathered of the info on Amazon, he is a professor at a Christian college?
Hey Susan -- The image is loading for me now. No, hadn't seen this one before, and it does look like it's worth checking out. According to what Google tells me, Preston Jones is a history prof at interdenominational John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and has taught at other religious schools, too.
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