Psalm 51 – David Carr
July 31, 2009
Union Theological Seminary’s Professor of Old Testament, David Carr, exegetes the David and Bathsheba story and reads Psalm 51 over a bed of samples. Dr. Carr is the author of The Erotic Word: Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Bible and Writing on the Tablet of the Heart Origins of Scripture and Literature.
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Psalm 14 – j. Snodgrass
July 21, 2009
This week, one of Transmission’s founding members, playwright, lyricist, and songwriter j. Snodgrass discusses Psalm 14, justice, and the prophetic tradition. If you’re interested in checking out some of Snodgrass’s other work, check out Captain Crash and the Loose Bricks.
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House Blessing on Wednesday
July 14, 2009
Hey, Transmissioners!
We’ve got a lot going on!¬† First, Sarah is welcoming
us into her new home this Wednesday to do a house blessing.¬† Second, Wednesday is also Dan’s birthday, so we’ll be celebrating that.¬† Third, Bowie’s got a ritual planned for us involving looking at July 15th throughout history – it’s a surprisingly active day.
Also, on July 30th we’ll be attending a screening of The Yes Men Fix the World, along with a bunch of other emergents, house churchers, and progressive christians, and we’ll have a conversation with the director afterwards.
Psalm 89 – Ana Hernandez
July 13, 2009
Musician and author Ana Hernandez discusses Psalm 89 and the difficulty of praying from places of sadness and anger. This episode also features her song, “Kosi R’vaya” from her album, Inside Chants, written by Shefa Gold and sung with Ruth Cunningham.
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Vigil at Varick St
July 8, 2009
Hey, Transmissioners!
This Friday, we’ll be joining a bunch of other emergenty, house-churchish people downtown for a vigil, witnessing for justice for non-documented immigrants and other marginalized people. Afterwards, we’ll probably go out for beer. You should come!
Join with others concerned with the plight of the immigrant as we stand in solidarity with immigrants and native-born during the monthly Vigil on Varick Street, located in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention Facility in lower Manhattan.
Members of the Catholic Worker, the New Sanctuary Movement, Families for Freedom, Radical Living, Justice For Our Neighbors, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, and various individuals and congregations throughout the city join together the second Friday of every month to pray, sing, and stand vigilant for our brothers and sisters who are behind bars, across the border, and who suffer under the weight of unjust immigration laws.
More than 400,000 people a year are detained by immigration officials in the United States – including undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants who run afoul of the law and asylum seekers who come fleeing persecution. Immigrants can be detained
for months or years without any form of meaningful review of whether their detention is necessary, and 84% of detainees are unable to obtain the assistance necessary to present viable claims in an adversarial and complex court process.
Many members of Congress have called for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, and now is the time to be present and to call for a just immigration policy.
"’When foreigners reside among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigners residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God." Leviticus 19:33-34.
Psalm 24 – Stephanie Spellers
July 7, 2009
Well, we’re back with episode 2 of the podcast, and just because I’m posting it at 1:30 in the morning
on Tuesday doesn’t mean that I missed my self-imposed Monday deadline. Honest. It doesn’t.
In any case, this week we’re featuring Stephanie Spellers, author of Radical Welcome and pastor of the The Crossing, a very cool emergent community in Boston. We talk about Psalm 24, the idea of welcome, and the difficulties of trying to have an open table.
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Kadosh, Sanctus, Holy, etc
July 4, 2009
One of the things I really love about mystical eucharistic theology is the idea that there is only one bread and one cup across all the world and throughout all time. The idea is that since each eucharist is mystically linked with the unique event of Christ’s death on the cross, every eucharist that has ever been celebrated (or ever will be celebrated) happens simultaneously. Mind-bending, huh?
I’m not sure that my own eucharistic theology is quite that high, but I am in love with the idea the eucharistic table is something bigger than the food that’s on it and the people sitting around it – that’s an act that unites us with all Christians everywhere and everytime.
This is one reason why so many liturgical traditions sing a sanctus as part of the liturgy, and why it’s important that it’s sung by the congregation and not just by the minister or choir. Isaiah had a vision of angles singing this song without ceasing, and so when the people sing it at communion they are singing along with the seraphim – when the minister says something like:
Therefore, with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Your glorious name, evermore praising You and saying…
Or, at Transmission sometimes:
With strangers, neighbors, saviors, ravers, saints and angels, raise a song
As one with some whose work is done and others here or yet to come
This is what’s being referred to.
Angels aside, it is pretty amazing that this song has been song so often, so consistently, and in so many many ways throughout the millenia. Folks have never stopped singing it, but they’ve also never stopped coming up with new ways to sing it. Here’s a playlist of this song through the ages for your listening pleasure:
A sephardic cantor singing it in perhaps the oldest version of it I know:
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Deborah Van Dyke singing it as a meditative chant (kadosh):
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In Dulci Jubilo singing it as Ambrosian Chant (santus):
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Helen Shapiro singing as full-on gospel melodrama (kadosh – the Lord He reigns):
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The Psalters singing it as only they can (hosannah):
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Rachel Cole singing it as Christian pop (kadosh):
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Adom9 singing it as trance electronica (sanctus):
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All of the above are available on iTunes, so if any of them struck your fancy, go buy them!
Prayer request
July 2, 2009
Hey, everyone – Renata, who’s back in NYC, has asked that we add her family to our prayers – they’re going through some difficult times.