Psalm 111 – Lacey Brown
August 11, 2009
Singer, songwriter, and percussionist Lacey Brown discusses music, the mystery of worship, and ancient Israelite education. Also featuring music from the Church of the Apostles.
Also, for those who didn’t know, all the sheet music from the book and podcast is available for free download at Church Publishing.
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A Rite of Passage
August 10, 2009
Aidan Kavanaugh was professor of liturgy at the Divinity School of Yale University. He told the following story within a lecture delivered in August 1997 at the Theology Institute held at Holy Cross Abbey in Canon City, Colorado. It was printed in Liturgy 70 with Father Aidan’s kind permission, and was read to me last week by Craig Satterlee.  I thought it might be an interesting read for Transmissioners while we continue exploring our relationship with sacraments.
I have always rather liked the gruff robustness of the first rubric for baptism found in a late fourth-century church order which directs that the bishop enter the vestibule of the baptistry and say to the catechumens without commentary or apology only four words: “Take off your clothes.” There is no evidence that the assistants fainted or the catechumens asked what he meant. Catechesis and much prayer and fasting had led them to understand that the language of their passage this night in Christ from death to life would be the language of the bathhouse and the tomb – not that of the forum and the drawing room.
So they stripped and stood there, probably, faint from fasting , shivering from the cold of early Easter morning and with awe at what was about to be consummated; years of having their motives and lives scrutinized; years of hearing the word of God read and expounded at worship; years of being dismissed with prayer before the Faithful went on to celebrate the eucharist; years of having the doors to the assembly hall closed to them; years of seeing the tomb-like baptistry building only from without; years of hearing the old folks of the community tell hair-raising tales of what being a Christian had cost their own grandparents when the emperors were still pagan; years of running into a reticent and reverent vagueness concerning what was actually done by the Faithful at the breaking of bread and in that closed baptistry . . . . tonight all this was about to end as they stood here naked on a cold floor in the gloom of this eerie room.
Reforming or Conforming?
August 8, 2009
So a few years ago I wrote a rather passionate post about the emergent church. I still think it’s a rather good piece of writing:
http://www.transmissioning.org/2007/01/27/kimball-macarthur-and-me/
Well, it turns out two years later, Phil Johnson felt the need to refute me in his essay “Joyriding on the Downgrade at Breakneck Speed: The Dark Side of Diversity,” published in Reforming or Conforming?
Check out the link – I’m in footnote seven.¬† Although I disagree with his presuppositions, it’s a very interesting read and worth a few minutes of your time.
Psalm 130 – Todd and Angie Fadel
August 4, 2009
Agents of Future
Todd and Angie Fadel, members of the Bridge, an emergent community in Portland, discuss hope, participatory music, and being Agents of Future. Go buy their new album at Proost.
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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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