Glorifying God Through Jazz

Now, you may not know this… but I have a Diploma in Jazz (Performance).

Yes, I hear you pontificate… I can see how that comes in handy in Children’s Ministry.

Well, ‘music soothes the savage beast’ they say — Need I say more.

So I found this article fascinating to say the least, finally I can justify my qualification spiritually.

What Faith should look like

Jazz is one often overlooked type of music from which Christians can benefit. Jazz can make us especially the us of white, middle- and upper-class, relatively comfortable American believers ”better Christians, writes Rodney Clapp in a provocative essay from his book Border Crossings. Put more pointedly and specifically, jazz can correct what James Cone has called . . . the heresy of white Christianity.

Check it out!

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