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The Jazz Theologian
Blue Notes
By
Robert Gelinas
Major scales are hopeful. Minor scales are not. The blues linger simultaneously in between–defiantly loving. Blue notes are flat, slightly dissonant yet expectant. Jazz never forgets the blues. Christianity always remembers the cross.
Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (Due out 2010) p2
By
Robert Gelinas
(Here's another installment from my current writing project) The Loveliest Lynchee Was Our Lord[1] That’s a difficult question, isn't it? How do you follow strange fruit? Perhaps you’ve never thought of it this way before, but—as followers of Christ—we have wrestled with that for centuries. How do we follow strange—unnatural—fruit? After seeing a lynch victim,…
Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (Due out 2010) p1
By
Robert Gelinas
(I'm currently working on my second book. It's a jazz-shaped take on the cross…I'll share a few excerpts this week…here's installment #1.) He stands stripped bare, arms restrained at the wrists. His legs are lacerated on all sides; long deep grooves cover his torso and lumps of flesh are missing. Only a slight grimace of…
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