{"id":343,"date":"2007-08-22T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2007\/08\/wow.html"},"modified":"2007-08-22T23:50:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T23:50:11","slug":"wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/08\/wow.html","title":{"rendered":"WOW!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really wish those of you who read this blog outside of Denver could have been present for this weeks session of Discover the Gospel in Jazz. <\/p>\n<p>Henry Butler was amazing!&nbsp; His musical ability, vocals and presence is astonishing.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>For those of you who were present, we spoke about how a jazz-shaped faith is preceded by learning to sing the blues.&nbsp; That is, &quot;Tragicomic Hope.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Anything thoughts on Henry or the topic?<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few post I&#8217;m going to revisit some old posts on the question, &quot;What color is Jesus?&quot;&nbsp; This will provide a fun case study in jazz theology and set the stage for our final session next week.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in the groove,<\/p>\n<p>robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really wish those of you who read this blog outside of Denver could have been present for this weeks session of Discover the Gospel in Jazz. 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Author of Finding the Groove: Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith (Zondervan) and the upcoming, Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (2011). Founder of Project 127, a ministry dedicated to seeing the day when there are no children waiting for homes in Colorado's foster care system. Robert deeply desires to see the body of Christ mobilized to serve the least of these. The poor, the down and out, the disenfranchised and disabled, those deemed unimportant and the unborn. He believes that God loves all people yet he has a special heart for the poor and the poor in spirit, the miserable and the marginalized. A Contributing Editor for Leadership Journal and Urbanfaith.com. He acquired a B.A. in Bibilcal Studies from Colorado Christian University and a Master of Arts in World Christianity (Missiology) from Denver Seminary. Robert is married to the love of his life, Barbara, and they have six energetic children (3 boys &amp; 3 girls--one bio, five adopted--two from Ethiopia). 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