My good friend Kelly Liebengood ran off to Costa Rica shortly after recording this 2003 album. Then, when he had done all the damage he could in that Central American nation, he fled to Scotland, where he is presently jousting at becoming a biblical scholar, to the general consternation of an otherwise splendid old University [...]
Archive for January, 2008
original thinking: Kelly Liebengood, Deep with You
Posted in reseña, tagged Kelly Liebengood, music, reseña on January 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
like a large cigar: Gregorian Chant (The Sunday Times Music Collection)
Posted in reseña, tagged Gregorian Chant, music, reseña, Sunday Times Music Collection on January 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
At first or early encounter, Gregorian Chant is a bit like a large, quality cigar. It goes on rather longer than one anticipated, it provides moments for wondering how-did-I-get-myself-into-this, it opens the shutters to glimpses of true beauty, and in the end leaves one longing for the next one.
meekness’ ROI: Matthew 5
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Matthew, textures on January 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Jesus’ teaching, blessing is a deep paradox. It does not come to those who seem most likely to have achieved it. Its credentials are counter-intuitive. Blessing descends in sharp contradiction to the appearances of candidacy.
tedium’s fertile blessing: Genesis 8-11
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Genesis, textures on January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With their feet newly planted on dry ground, the survivors of the biblical flood story learn from Yahweh himself that the experience will never be repeated. Indeed, dependable regularity will mark the future rather than the systematic dismantling of creation that brought the floodwaters surging up from below and pounding down as incessant rain. As [...]
this is the word spoken … : Matthew 3-4
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Matthew, textures on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The gospel according to Matthew, one of the four canonical literary glimpses of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection that are afforded us, peers attentively into Israel’s past. Indeed, this portrait of Jesus and his way in this world finds its guiding framework in the Old Testament. Matthew will frequently refer to a word or action [...]
beautifying the heavy weight of sorrow: Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise
Posted in reseña, tagged Irene Nemirovsky, reseña on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a book of which the appendices are capable of making their reader weep. And weep, one should. Irene Nemirovsky’s stories and the almost incredible story of how this lost manuscript only recently came to light after the author was murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 (her husband died a similar death at the hands [...]
belongs near an elbow: Dictionary of International Relations (Penguin Reference)
Posted in reseña on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Edited by two British academics, this superb reference tool has quickly found pride of place near my elbow at the location where I think and write. Smallish but crystal-clear fontwork allows hundreds of concise, well-edited articles to fill up just over six hundred pages in complement with a rather full bibliography. An intense cross-referencing system [...]
an entrepeneur’s life: Norm Miller, Beyond the Norm
Posted in reseña, tagged Norm Miller, reseña on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although this reviewer’s background and education were scant preparation for it, my work brings me into regular contact with (mostly American) entrepeneurs whose lives are testimony to the power that possibility still holds in this country. One of them is the chairman of the board I serve with Overseas Council, Norm Miller. Norm’s 1996 self-told [...]
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