The subtext that winds its way through much of biblical instruction and leavens it so that it rises not as something ludicrous but rather nourishing is that our Maker has a larger purpose in mind than we are normally capable of perceiving for ourselves. This is no easy truth, nor one whose veracity can be [...]
Archive for November, 2008
a larger purpose: Hebrews 12
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Hebrews, textures on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
mobility: Lamentations 5, Ezekiel 1
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Ezekiel, Lamentations, textures on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It might almost seem that the first chapter of Ezekiel answers to the pained cry of the last chapter of Lamentations. That poem, which in our modern bound Bibles immediately precedes the work that bears the prophet Ezekiel’s name, ends with a picture of a royal deity whose apparent disinterest in his people exceeds all [...]
old school: ‘Praise to the Lord O My Soul’. The Psalms of David, Volume 8 (Ely Cathedral Choir)
Posted in reseña, tagged Ely Cathedral Choir, music, reseña, worship on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ely Cathedral rises out of the flatlands of East Anglia like a glorious surprise. Its towers and parapets dwarf the surrounding buildings and landscape. As the Cathedral’s website explains the mindset of its intellectual authors, ‘The Benedictine monks only concern was to glorify God, and nothing less than a building on a majestic scale would [...]
easy street: Merengue (Ballroom Latin Dance)
Posted in reseña, when a white boy dances, tagged dance, music, reseña on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Compilations of tunes that are assembled to support beginning dancers in their instruction vary wildly with regard to the quality of the artists and the adequacy of the recording technology. This selection from the Ballroom Latin Dance series excels on both counts. Nine tunes average about four-and-a-half minutes each, long enough for the dance student [...]
suelto: Early Romantics (Sunday Times Music Collection)
Posted in reseña, tagged music, reseña, Sunday Times Music Collection on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From the mid-90s Sunday Times Music Collection comes this splendid introduction to the period when European art music was beginning to let its hair down as the well-coiffed standards of the Classical era were undermined by the kinds of experimentation that is audible in these ten selections from six composers (Mendelssohn, Chopin, Berlioz, Field, Schubert, [...]
messiah school: Hebrews 5
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Hebrews, textures on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Because of its tenacious insistence that Jesus was fully human—as we are—the New Testament permits itself some daring assessments of the this man completed his God-given assignment. The priestly metaphor that becomes quite common in the book of Hebrews flows easily into this stream, for the priests Israel knew where, quintessentially, specially placed human beings [...]
not much like an angel: Hebrews 1
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Hebrews, textures on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The biblical tradition is rightly jealous of the incomparability of Yahweh. Nothing gets the dander of, say, a prophet like Isaiah, as the notion that other gods are made of the same stuff as Yahweh. ‘Made’, in fact, is the operative term. Yahweh is the unmade Maker. The Hebrew Bible does not deny that other [...]
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