Taizizze in the Hizzle

From Taize founder Brother Roger, in Songs and Prayers from Taize:
In a technological society, there is a clear separation between prayer and work. When inner life and human solidarity appear to be in competition with one anothe, as if people had to choose between them, that opposition tears apart the very depths of the soul.
Prayer [...]

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Woody Guthrie’s Post-Debate Analysis

Christ for President

Let’s have Christ our President
Let us have him for our king
Cast your vote for the Carpenter
That you call the Nazarene
The only way we can ever beat
These crooked politician men
Is to run the money changers out of the temple
Put the Carpenter in
O It’s Jesus Christ our President
God above our king
With a job and a [...]

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4 Eva

I had to be 15 years older than Van Morrison was when he recorded Astral Weeks before it caught me, but it quickly became a seminal record to me. Morrison is performing the full album in my neighborhood soon, and I won’t be there, but I’d like to be, even as a late-comer.

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