My son, Aaron, was recently named the Charles Mingus Composition Award winner at Berklee College of Music in Boston. There he had the enviable opportunity to work with Maria Schneider, who is one of his musical inspirations.
Here is a piece he recently wrote and performed at the JazzSchool in Berkeley, California. It's part of a four movement jazz suite and this particular movement is entitled This World Has Potential. It's a reminder to me that despite the many things we can criticize about our circumstances, the world remains a remarkable and wonder-filled place.
I hope you enjoy the music.
Christian fundamentalists have borrowed a term once confined to cultural and legal studies to further a worldview inconsistent with Christ’s teachings. That term—the Judeo-Christian Ethic—is often defined by the Ten Commandments, which are guidelines unworthy of those concerned with the great query: What manner of person ought I be? The New Christian Ethic acknowledges that the laws of Leviticus are obsolete, callings are highly individualized and faith is impossible without uncertainty.
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