{"id":332,"date":"2007-08-29T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2007\/08\/last-night-of-d.html"},"modified":"2007-08-29T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T02:00:00","slug":"last-night-of-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/08\/last-night-of-d.html","title":{"rendered":"Last night of Discover the Gospel in Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is our seventh and final week of our time together.&nbsp; When I first started thinking about what it would be like to get together in a church and listen to great jazz and allow it to serve as a metaphor for our faith I had no idea how much fun it would be.&nbsp; You all have been a true delight.&nbsp; Yes, we will do this again&#8230;and again&#8230;and again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/08\/26\/blue_hugh_diff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"133\" alt=\"Blue_hugh_diff\" src=\"https:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/findingthegroove\/images\/2007\/08\/26\/blue_hugh_diff.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I would like to take this out into the community.&nbsp; I believe that what we have been doing will work well in local &quot;secular&quot; venues where we advertise to the community and not just CCC.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Ragin will join us for our final session.&nbsp; This man&#8217;s knowledge of jazz and skills on the trumpet are unmatched in Denver.&nbsp; We are in for a treat.<\/p>\n<p>Our final topic will be, &quot;So What.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Stay in the groove,<\/p>\n<p>robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is our seventh and final week of our time together.&nbsp; When I first started thinking about what it would be like to get together in a church and listen to great jazz and allow it to serve as a metaphor for our faith I had no idea how much fun it would be.&nbsp; You&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Last night of Discover the Gospel in Jazz - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/08\/last-night-of-d.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Last night of Discover the Gospel in Jazz - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tonight is our seventh and final week of our time together.&nbsp; 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