So beautiful. The painting of the modern madonna and child spoke to me. I will carry that with me through this Christmas season. the birds of Gaza also will. I find I am too easily beat down by the news so I avoid it. Thank you for making a way for me to pray for/be in solidarity with those living through the horror of war.
Reminds me of that Pete Rollins bit about fundamentalism still playing by the rules of this world: the problem with fundamentalism isn’t that it’s too extreme, it’s that it’s not extreme enough.
I love this tie-back to the Killers. They did have some wonderful lyrical work, and I haven't thought of them in ages. I've come back around to System of a Down, they do have some songs that are purely for shock value, but others were written in context of the Armenian Genocide, or the war on drugs, or the iraq war--Boom! and B.Y.O.B.
Prison song has a spoken word bit that hits HARD, esp considering it was written in 2001:
All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased
And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences
Utilising drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
Drugs are now your global policy, now you police the globe
I buy my crack, my smack, my b***h right here in Hollywood
Drug money is used to rig elections and train brutal corporate sponsored dictators around the world
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Esp when it comes to human atrocities, history repeats itself.
So beautiful. The painting of the modern madonna and child spoke to me. I will carry that with me through this Christmas season. the birds of Gaza also will. I find I am too easily beat down by the news so I avoid it. Thank you for making a way for me to pray for/be in solidarity with those living through the horror of war.
Jeff, Well done. this perspective "We don’t need peace right now—we need unrest." Is something to think about. D
Reminds me of that Pete Rollins bit about fundamentalism still playing by the rules of this world: the problem with fundamentalism isn’t that it’s too extreme, it’s that it’s not extreme enough.
Thanks for introducing me to The Killers.
The Killers are so good!
As always, beautiful. Thank you for the rowan Williams essay. I will sit and pray with this for days to come. Peace and a Blessed Christmas!
Thank you, Jeff, for giving us important words to consider during the 2024 Advent season.
This is absolutely brilliant. Praying for unrest!
I love this tie-back to the Killers. They did have some wonderful lyrical work, and I haven't thought of them in ages. I've come back around to System of a Down, they do have some songs that are purely for shock value, but others were written in context of the Armenian Genocide, or the war on drugs, or the iraq war--Boom! and B.Y.O.B.
Prison song has a spoken word bit that hits HARD, esp considering it was written in 2001:
All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased
And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences
Utilising drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
Drugs are now your global policy, now you police the globe
I buy my crack, my smack, my b***h right here in Hollywood
Drug money is used to rig elections and train brutal corporate sponsored dictators around the world
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Esp when it comes to human atrocities, history repeats itself.