Thoughts on God’s love and redemption through conscious and Christian hip-hop
This is the full worship set from 11/24/2019 which features the previous two spoken words I posted here on March 15th and March 22nd. Set list: I Am Loved, Consider... As If, Canvas and Clay, My God Uses Things to Make Things, Canvas and Clay. Honor to the entire Light leadership team and family for providing the space and opportunity to break new ground in our worship experiences.
Part two of the Laments commentary. We touch on how fear and the excuse of fear contributes to violence against citizens and plays into the killings and justifications of the killings of Jemel Roberson and Botham Shem Jean. I attempt to trace the pronounced fear of these black men up to the fear that ungodly principalities could have had of them… I draw out how these men were a threat to depraved systems and how spiritual wickedness may have rejoiced at their killings and at the Laments in Midlothian.
In Laments in Midlothian, I tried to cover some of the factors that contribute to the systemic and disproportionate abuse of black American citizens at the hands of law enforcement. The writing was birthed from observing the pain of loved ones of the deceased, and shifted focus to the spiritual wickedness in high places that rejoices in that pain, and provisions for its occasion. The poems of that series introduced some concepts that I will delve into deeper. This is part one of that commentary.
Here is the audio from the church service where for the spoken word text in the previous post were part of service. There are clips with the two spoken word excerpts and one full clip of the worship set the spoken word was a part of.
In my previous post I shared the words to a poem that came to me during our New Year’s service with my church family. I read the poem at church the following Sunday. I will often record the worship portions of service, because our worship team is awesome, and open to the moving of the... Continue Reading →
The following poem was written at the amazing New Year’s Eve into New Year’s Day worship service we had at the end of 2018 and beginning of 2019 with my church family. It was inspired by (and also confirmed) the fellowship and worship and words and scriptures shared during our time together. It was also... Continue Reading →
"How do you mend a broken world? Give it a gift it could never earn, Pour out a love, that it don’t deserve, Send it a Son and a Savior. It was a silent night, A Holy Night" Crystal Nicole, "Silent Night" 116's The Gift: A Christmas Compilation . Last month, on November 23, 2018,... Continue Reading →
(begin Laments in Midlothian series with part I of V here) . (begin Laments in Midlothian series with part I of V here. The following is an intro to a commentary I plan on writing for the series of poems linked above) A kind of essay, of Midlothian, and Saint Lucia’s son, and St Lucie’s... Continue Reading →
Big (belated) shout-out to dittrich.sara@gmail.com for the redesign! Thank you so much for getting the booths looking so fresh and so clean!
The weekend of February 2nd through the 4th was the third official Ceasefire weekend here in Baltimore. Ceasefire is a grassroots initiative designed to promote peace, celebrate life, and remember those who have lost loved ones to violence in the city. During this Ceasefire there were discussions on the root causes of Baltimore’s violence, screenings... Continue Reading →
Festival of Booths 