Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Wyclef Jean's Hopes For Haiti
How one musician is trying to make a difference in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4713518n
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Don't forget Haiti
The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere needs us just as much (maybe more) during the global recession. Click here for video.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Global conscience
It's time to make a difference.
This is what I've wanted to do for a while -- make a difference. I have long wanted to make a difference through music, and through the way I interact with the people I meet.
The more I learn about people in desperate need around the world (including in the U.S.A.), the more I feel obligated to help -- to make a difference. So many are in desperate need, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. When I came back from Mexico (the first mission trip I ever went on), I felt that the USA was a third world country, spiritually, more so than I felt that the Baja California peninsula of Mexico was poor. Though some Americans are desperately materially poor, millions of Americans live with material riches that are almost unimaginable in many parts of the world.
Our poverty is in our capacity to ignore a needy person and to ignore God (which, according to one famous parable, can sometimes be one and the same) and continue in our mediocre, materially comfortable existence.
I want to stop ignoring those who can be all too easy to temporarily ignore -- God, starving children, those living under violent oppression. I want to break out of my comfortable mediocrity.
This is what I've wanted to do for a while -- make a difference. I have long wanted to make a difference through music, and through the way I interact with the people I meet.
The more I learn about people in desperate need around the world (including in the U.S.A.), the more I feel obligated to help -- to make a difference. So many are in desperate need, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. When I came back from Mexico (the first mission trip I ever went on), I felt that the USA was a third world country, spiritually, more so than I felt that the Baja California peninsula of Mexico was poor. Though some Americans are desperately materially poor, millions of Americans live with material riches that are almost unimaginable in many parts of the world.
Our poverty is in our capacity to ignore a needy person and to ignore God (which, according to one famous parable, can sometimes be one and the same) and continue in our mediocre, materially comfortable existence.
I want to stop ignoring those who can be all too easy to temporarily ignore -- God, starving children, those living under violent oppression. I want to break out of my comfortable mediocrity.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Mahler in Gear
Check out this awesome logo for a performance of Mahler's third (I think...) in Barcelona.
http://www.auditori.cat/seccions/programacio/fitxa.aspx?idconcert=461&cicle_id=71
http://www.auditori.cat/seccions/programacio/fitxa.aspx?idconcert=461&cicle_id=71
What is church?
What is church? Where do I find it?
Is it a building?
Is it a group of people?
Is it a feeling?
Is it an organization, a structure of decision-makers and decision-followers?
Is it a body?
Is it an idea? A Concept?
And then, what is it like?
Is it bland? Does it have passion? Does it matter? Does it mean anything?
Who speaks for church? Who speaks for God?
Is it a building?
Is it a group of people?
Is it a feeling?
Is it an organization, a structure of decision-makers and decision-followers?
Is it a body?
Is it an idea? A Concept?
And then, what is it like?
Is it bland? Does it have passion? Does it matter? Does it mean anything?
Who speaks for church? Who speaks for God?
Friday, August 24, 2007
Something to say, Part 1
Many times when I am writing music, I ask myself: do I really have something to say? Or perhaps: what do I have to say?
And I ask myself that same question here.
The question applies to all of life, really. I see many people (and sometimes myself) moving through life, but not really sure of where they are going. At this point in history, it's easy to find plenty to distract us from a problem which becomes much more pressing as we near our end: what does it all mean?
What does it all mean? What have I been living for? Is there something worth living for, aiming for, striving for, working for? Do I have a mission, a cause, a reason to stand up for something? And does it matter? When I die, will all my striving simply dissipate in the wind like sand, or will it mean something more than my lifespan can hold?
And I ask myself that same question here.
The question applies to all of life, really. I see many people (and sometimes myself) moving through life, but not really sure of where they are going. At this point in history, it's easy to find plenty to distract us from a problem which becomes much more pressing as we near our end: what does it all mean?
What does it all mean? What have I been living for? Is there something worth living for, aiming for, striving for, working for? Do I have a mission, a cause, a reason to stand up for something? And does it matter? When I die, will all my striving simply dissipate in the wind like sand, or will it mean something more than my lifespan can hold?
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