The focus of the gospels on presenting Jesus within his real-world Palestinian millieu does not allow for a nuanced portrayal of the Pharisees. It is all too easy to fall into caricature. Yet even when the proper interpretive precautions have been taken and caveats installed in all the right places, the Pharisee movement appears to [...]
Archive for January, 2009
mercy!: Matthew 12
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Matthew, textures on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
opting for the slap: Proverbs 3.11-12
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Proverbs, textures on January 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
How great would it be if maturity could take its shape without us first walking the painful mile? Or if love did not insist upon the improvement of its object? That would be the life! Or at the least it would seem to be so for a season before the mildewed scent of its mediocrity [...]
VIP Lounge, Juan Santamaría International Airport, San José, Costa Rica
Posted in two hippos make an island, tagged air travel, airports, travel on January 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
SJO as she is called was my home airport for many years, so this review of its single, well-hidden VIP lounge may be nudged from stark objectivity by a certain affection for the place. In spite of the wide spectrum of airlines that now services Costa Rica’s capital city, none of the major North American [...]
the invisible silence of righteousness: Matthew 6
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Matthew, textures on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As the old saw used to put it, ‘Children are to be seen and not heard.’ Jesus’ teaching on righteous behavior is even more severe. Good deeds ought to be neither seen nor heart, at least not in a way that reflects creditably upon their practitioner: “Beware of practicing your piety before others in order [...]
Sting meets Dowland halfway: Sting, Songs from the Labyrinth
Posted in reseña, tagged music, reseña, Sting on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If I did not hold Sting’s 2006 Deutsche Grammophon recording of the 16-17th centuries’ John Dowland’s lute-accompanied music in my hands, I would not believe that the British rock star had truly attempted to pull this one off. But I do, and he has. And not to bad effect, either. Unlike may Sting critics who [...]
affection: Matthew 4
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Matthew, textures on January 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It is possible even through the centuries of transmission and the editorial layers of the gospels themselves to discern the deep affection that Jesus’ earliest followers had for their ‘master’ and friend. Some of them would choose to die for him rather than renounce his memory.
and on the third day there was … um … guys singing *really* well: Straight No Chaser: Holiday Spirits
Posted in reseña, tagged music, reseña, Straight No Chaser on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the great 2008 musical stories is the resurrection tale involving a bunch of college dudes of yore (well, actually, not that many years ago) who reunited their Indiana University combo long enough to grab the attention of a record executive who offered them a multi-album deal that, fortunately, began with this Christmas sendoff. [...]
Solid Soul (Sunday Times Music Collection)
Posted in reseña, tagged Aaron Neville, Aretha Franklin, Chi-Lites, Curtis Mayfield, Etta James, Impressions, Jackie WIlson, James Brown, Joe Tex, Lee Dorsey, Mary Wells, music, Percy Sledge, Sunday Times Music Collection on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This eclectic compilation is worth acquiring for Aretha Franklin’s opening track (‘Yield Not to Temptation’) alone. And that’s before you hit the aesthetic roller coaster of the remaining eleven titles. Unfortunately, as one of the gems that emerged under the 1990s Sunday Times Music Collection rubric it is not widely available. The artists tagged in [...]
sensaxual: Sax Appeal (The Sunday Times Music Collection)
Posted in reseña, tagged Adrian Rollini & His Orchestra, Benny Carter & His Orchestra, Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra, Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkiins Quartet, Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra, Freddy Gardner, jazz, Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra, Jimmy Dorsey, Johnny Hodges & Orchestra, Lester Young Quintet, music, reseña, Sindey Bechet, Sunday Times Music Collection, Willie Smith on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Sunday Times Music Collection of the mid-1990s produced some fabulous compilations, of which Sax Appeal must rate as one of the best. Twelve pieces, recorded by front-list bands between 1929 and 1944, are splashed across 35 minutes of play time. This is quintessentially American music played by orchestras who usually had the conductor’s name [...]
the oddest of cameos: Genesis 5
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Genesis, textures on January 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the midst of one of its less inspiring genealogies, the Bible offers us a brief glimpse at the remote fringe of what must have been a remarkable story. As it is wont to do, rabbinical tradition would fill in the absence of detail regarding a certain Enoch. The biblical text presents this man in [...]
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