Friday, May 09, 2014
Wednesday, May 07, 2014
A pledge we can agree on
After I read the list of signatories I was amazed, simply amazed. I tweeted to @markdtooley Still amazed to see you and PB Schori on the same signature list - and not one piglet in the sky!
From here:
More than 150 American Christian leaders from across ecumenical lines are issuing a call to action in response to a crisis facing ancient faith communities.
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From here:
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), co-chairs of the bipartisan Religious Minorities in the Middle East Caucus, hosted a Capitol Hill press conference this morning featuring several prominent American Christian leaders who will be releasing a “Pledge of Solidarity & Call to Action” on behalf of Christians and other religious communities in Egypt, Iraq and Syria who are increasingly threatened in the lands they have inhabited for centuries.
The Pledge, in part, says: “Now facing an existential threat to their presence in the lands where Christianity has its roots, the Churches in the Middle East fear they have been largely ignored by their coreligionists in the West… American religious leaders need to pray and speak with greater urgency about this human rights crisis.”
Read it all here.
Among those scheduled to attend the press conference include Canon Andrew White.
Read the pledge here.
More than 100 Christian leaders supporting the document include:
- Leith Anderson, President, National Association of Evangelicals
- Robert Duncan, Archbishop, Anglican Church in North America
- Timothy George, Dean, Beeson Divinity School
- Russell D. Moore, President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
- Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop, the Episcopal Church
- Mark Tooley, President, Institute on Religion & Democracy
- Jim Wallis, President and Founder, Sojourners
- Donald Wuerl, Cardinal and Archbishop, Archdiocese of Washington
Among those scheduled to attend the press conference include Canon Andrew White.
Read the pledge here.
Monday, May 05, 2014
#LC14 Live from London: Alpha/Holy Trinity Brompton Leadership Conference now underway at the Royal Alert Hall
(May 5-6, 2014) live from Royal Albert Hall in London.
Thursday, May 01, 2014
Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Hard Rain" go on the block
Bob Dylan's working drafts of Like a Rolling Stone and Hard Rain are going to be auctioned by Sotheby's.
From here:
One of the most popular songs of all time, Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," is going to auction this summer.
Sotheby's is offering a working draft of the finished song in Dylan's own hand for an estimated $1 million to $2 million.The song is about a debutante who becomes a loner when she's cast from upper-class social circles.
The draft is written in pencil on four sheets of hotel letterhead stationery with revisions, additions, notes and doodles: a hat, a bird, an animal with antlers. The stationery comes from the Roger Smith hotel in Washington, D.C.
"How does it feel To be on your own" it says in his handwriting. "No direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone."
Scrawls seem to reflect the artist's experimentation with rhymes.
More here.
The New York Times also writes:
Both manuscripts offer a great deal of information about Mr. Dylan’s writing process, or at least, about ideas that ran through his mind as he worked on those songs. “Hard Rain,” from 1962, is on pages ripped from a spiral notebook, and is in virtually finished form. But marginal notes are plentiful. They include a quotation from the biblical book of Jeremiah (“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew and approved of you”), the notation “diamond desert” to the right of the second verse, and what appear to be unrelated notes referring to titles of books and records.
Probably most telling, if also uncharacteristically obvious, given that most listeners regard the song as a vision of a post-nuclear landscape, are the names Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The “Like a Rolling Stone” manuscript, written on stationery from the Roger Smith Hotel in Washington, has similar marginal notes, including record titles (“Midnight Special,” for example) that could relate to his composing process, or might simply be contemporaneous notes he made on an available scrap of paper. But because this four-page version is from earlier in the process than the “Hard Rain” manuscript, it also shows the song as very much a work in progress.
The full refrain as we know it – “How does it feel / to be on your own / no direction home / like a complete unknown / like a rolling stone” – does not turn up until the fourth page. Even there, rejected lines are interspersed. A rejected third line was, “like a dog without a bone,” which gives way to “now you’re unknown” and then “forever” replacing “you’re.”
Earlier, he had considered working the name Al Capone into the rhyme scheme, and he was stuck for a while on whether to build a rhyme on “how does it feel,” penciling in “it feels real,” “does it feel real,” “shut up and deal,” “get down and kneel” and “raw deal.”“If you look at these four pages,” Richard Austin, Sotheby’s manuscript expert, said in a telephone interview, “you can see that at this stage there are rhyme schemes that he didn’t pursue, and I suppose the chorus is the biggest surprise. Here you have a chorus that is such an iconic piece of history, but it clearly didn’t arrive fully formed. And you wonder, if he chose another rhyme, would it have had the same impact?”
Read more here.
Sotheby's expects that the auction may break the record, now held by John Lennon's A Day in the Life manuscript.
Here is the original recording of Like a Rolling Stone:
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Here is a performance of Hard Rain:
From here:
Sotheby's is offering a working draft of the finished song in Dylan's own hand for an estimated $1 million to $2 million.The song is about a debutante who becomes a loner when she's cast from upper-class social circles.
The draft is written in pencil on four sheets of hotel letterhead stationery with revisions, additions, notes and doodles: a hat, a bird, an animal with antlers. The stationery comes from the Roger Smith hotel in Washington, D.C.
"How does it feel To be on your own" it says in his handwriting. "No direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone."
Scrawls seem to reflect the artist's experimentation with rhymes.
More here.
The New York Times also writes:
Both manuscripts offer a great deal of information about Mr. Dylan’s writing process, or at least, about ideas that ran through his mind as he worked on those songs. “Hard Rain,” from 1962, is on pages ripped from a spiral notebook, and is in virtually finished form. But marginal notes are plentiful. They include a quotation from the biblical book of Jeremiah (“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew and approved of you”), the notation “diamond desert” to the right of the second verse, and what appear to be unrelated notes referring to titles of books and records.
Probably most telling, if also uncharacteristically obvious, given that most listeners regard the song as a vision of a post-nuclear landscape, are the names Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The “Like a Rolling Stone” manuscript, written on stationery from the Roger Smith Hotel in Washington, has similar marginal notes, including record titles (“Midnight Special,” for example) that could relate to his composing process, or might simply be contemporaneous notes he made on an available scrap of paper. But because this four-page version is from earlier in the process than the “Hard Rain” manuscript, it also shows the song as very much a work in progress.
Earlier, he had considered working the name Al Capone into the rhyme scheme, and he was stuck for a while on whether to build a rhyme on “how does it feel,” penciling in “it feels real,” “does it feel real,” “shut up and deal,” “get down and kneel” and “raw deal.”“If you look at these four pages,” Richard Austin, Sotheby’s manuscript expert, said in a telephone interview, “you can see that at this stage there are rhyme schemes that he didn’t pursue, and I suppose the chorus is the biggest surprise. Here you have a chorus that is such an iconic piece of history, but it clearly didn’t arrive fully formed. And you wonder, if he chose another rhyme, would it have had the same impact?”
Read more here.
Sotheby's expects that the auction may break the record, now held by John Lennon's A Day in the Life manuscript.
Here is the original recording of Like a Rolling Stone:
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Here is a performance of Hard Rain:
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Happy Earth Day!
Around here at the Cafe, when it's Earth Day it is John Denver Appreciation Day. Can't really think of anyone who had more influence on a particular generation then John Denver (1943-1997). And that's the way it is.
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Friday, April 18, 2014
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Today at the Cafe: How deep the Father's love for us
And His love is for us all - not just those that agree with Him.
Friday, April 04, 2014
Ask the Archbishop: Justin Welby Live
Watch as the Archbishop of Canterbury takes questions live on LBC in London. There are a few surprises! This is the unedited version:
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Blast from the past: Charity
One of the very first songs I learned as I became a Christian in the San Diego Coffeehouse all those years ago (location above) was called Charity, based on the 13th chapter of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, but have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up;
doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth. But whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then shall I know, even as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
but the greatest of these is charity.
I Corinthians 13.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
J. John interviews Justin Welby
The Rev. Canon J. John of the Philo Trust interviews Archbishop Justin Welby. Watch it all:
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning ...
“We have pursued this legal process out of the conviction that it is one of the ministries that God has entrusted to our church. We continued in our desire to be faithful to God’s calling to see it through to the end. We are grateful that our nation’s civil justice system allows us this recourse, and we thank the Supreme Court for its consideration of our petition. Although we hoped and prayed for a different outcome, we know that God is good, loving, and faithful. We have seen this on vibrant display in so many ways in our church life during these years, and we will continue to trust that he has even better things for us.” -The Rev. Dr. John W. Yates, Rector, The Falls Church Anglican (Falls Church, VA).
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Friday, March 14, 2014
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby installs ACNA Rector Tory Baucum as a Six Preacher at Canterbury Cathedral
The Rev. Dr. Tory Baucum (Rector, Truro Anglican Church, Fairfax, VA) was installed today as a Six Preacher of Canterbury Cathedral by Archbishop Justin Welby. The Anglican Church in North America's Archbishop Robert Duncan also attended the installation in Canterbury, England, today.
Monday, March 10, 2014
U.S. Supreme will not hear The Falls Church Anglican's appeal
We received word today that the United States Supreme Court has denied our church's petition for certiorari and declined to hear our case. This means that the long legal process in which our church has been involved since we were sued by The Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia in 2007 has come to its end.
We have pursued this legal process out of the conviction that it is one of the ministries that God has entrusted to our church and out of our desire to be faithful to God's calling to see it through to the end. We are grateful that our nation's civil justice system allows us this recourse and we thank the Supreme Court for its consideration of our petition.
Kevin Kallsen is interviewing Allan Haley of the Anglican Curmudgeon and will have that video up in a few moments.
UPDATE: Here is Kevin's interview:
More commentary here at Anglican Curmudgeon.
The bishop of Virginia, Shannon Johnston, released this statement:
"We are most gratified by the Supreme Court's ruling. We look forward to the possibilities that the months ahead will bring, and continue to keep those affected by the litigation in our prayers."
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