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<\/a> Blog:<\/strong><\/span> My graduate degree was in Missiology and I loved reading the late Harvey Conn. There are a group of people keeping his legacy alive at ‘Conn’-versation<\/span><\/a>. Conn taught that we should learn to love the city because the world is no longer a global village rather it has become a global city.<\/p>\n![\"Whalum2\"](\"https:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/findingthegroove\/images\/whalum2.jpg\")
<\/a> Album<\/span><\/strong>: If your looking for some good smooth Christian jazz with a Gospel bent then you can’t go wrong with Kirk Whalum’s The Gospel According to Jazz<\/u><\/em> (part 1 and 2). There are also DVD’s available of the evenings that are worth watching. Here is his personal website.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n![\"Living_on_borders_128x\"](\"https:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/findingthegroove\/images\/living_on_borders_128x.jpg\")
<\/a> Book<\/span><\/strong>: Living on the Borders: What the Church can Learn from Ethnic Immigrant Cultures<\/u><\/em> by Mark Griffin & Theron Walker. With all the debate on immigation this is a refrseshing take on the subject from a Christian perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"