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Journeys Home: Interfaith Days: Tisha B'av

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A spot about faith, life, place, art and music, answers, and questions. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Interfaith Days: Tisha B'av. Today is Tisha B'Av ("the ninth of Av"). This fast day in Judaism commemorates the destruction of the first and second temples in Jerusalem (586 BCE and 70 CE). The day also commemorates other tragedies that have happened to the Jewish people, like the expulsions of Jews from England in the 13th century and from Spain in the 15th century. As the Judaism 101 site. Click on the photo ...

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Journeys Home: October 2014

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A spot about faith, life, place, art and music, answers, and questions. Friday, October 31, 2014. A Mighty Fortress is Our God: Bach's Cantatas for the Feast of the Reformation. Luther window in Wehrli Chapel,. Eden Theological Seminary,. Where I'm an adjunct instructor. October 31 is Reformation Day, and these cantatas were appropriately performed in the university church of Luther, the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg. The CD cover photo, of a wide- and dark-eyed little girl, is from Kandahar, Afghanist...

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Journeys Home: November 2014

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A spot about faith, life, place, art and music, answers, and questions. Sunday, November 30, 2014. Kids in Leaf Piles. I remember one autumn when we played in the fallen leaves in the little park across the street, along Cook Street. One day, my friend buried me in leaves as I lay face down in a ditch. What fun to look around and see nothing but brown and red leaves! My mom was displeased, because I'd gotten so dirty. One of my devotional guides ( Living Faith. A post from last year). An I or a J? As my ...

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Journeys Home: April 2015

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A spot about faith, life, place, art and music, answers, and questions. Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Interfaith Days: Beginning of Ridvan. Which provides more information. Thursday, April 16, 2015. Interfaith Days: Yom Hashoah. Gives more information on its meaning, history, and observance. From the 2015 Interfaith Calendar of the Diversity Awareness Partnership of St. Louis- -see dapstl.org for more information- -and various online sources.). Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Gives more information about this day.

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Journeys Home: Interfaith Days: Lammas

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A spot about faith, life, place, art and music, answers, and questions. Saturday, August 1, 2015. From: http:/ branawen.blogspot.com/2011/08/. Provides information and several links concerning the holiday. This site. Also provides information about the day. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). PREORDER MY NEW POETRY BOOK! ORDER MY NEW BIBLE STUDY BOOK! Walking with Jesus through the Old Testament. ORDER MY NEW POETRY BOOK! Dreaming at the Electric Hobo. View my complete profile. Some of my books. The Kent...

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Journeys Home: "The Surge Fallacy"

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A spot about faith, life, place, art and music, answers, and questions. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Fascinating and cautionary article in The Atlantic. Concerning the Iraq War, "post-surge" fallacies, and the failures among current Republicans to learn the lessons of the war. Http:/ www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-surge-fallacy/399344/. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). PREORDER MY NEW POETRY BOOK! ORDER MY NEW BIBLE STUDY BOOK! Walking with Jesus through the Old Testament. The Social On...

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Journeys Home: Miles Davis and St. Louis

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A spot about faith, life, place, art and music, answers, and questions. Monday, August 10, 2015. Miles Davis and St. Louis. Last year, browsing the store at the Missouri History Museum, I purchased the book Miles Davis and American Culture. Edited by Gerald Early (St Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 2001). At the time, I was interested in the essay “From Kind of Blue. But only an AP notice in section D of St. Louis’ daily, the Post-Dispatch. Davis’ own personality and history, which includ...

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Journeys Home: December 2014

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A spot about faith, life, place, art and music, answers, and questions. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Be Not Afraid"- Seriously? Meme from the internet. As we stand at the beginning of a new calendar year, what would you change about yourself if you could? On one of my other online sites. When you pass through the waters I will be with you;
. And through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
. When you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
. And the flame shall not consume you. Cast all your anx...

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Journeys Home: Deaths in Police Custody

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A spot about faith, life, place, art and music, answers, and questions. Saturday, August 1, 2015. Deaths in Police Custody. A collection of news reports. Here is an article in The Christian Science Monitor. Reporting that four black women have died in police custody since Sandra Bland's July 13th death, in different circumstances, plus a story about the officer who arrested Bland. Http:/ www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0730/Four-black-women-have-died-in-police-custody-since-Sandra-Bland. The conten...

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Journeys Home: September 2014

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A spot about faith, life, place, art and music, answers, and questions. Monday, September 29, 2014. O Prince of the Cherubim: Bach's Cantatas for Michaelmas. BWV 50 is just over three minutes but is nevertheless (in Gardiner's words) “breath-taking” and majestic. Not specifically for Michaelmas, the piece dovetails with the cantatas because the text is based on a portion of Revelation 12, where we read the defeat of the dragon by Michael and the angels. Now is come salvation and strength,. That this high...