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sustainability, saskatchewan, san francisco
Little did I know, when this tour began with the “Sustainable Food and Farming” conference 3 weeks ago, that the very geography of the tour would serve as a kind of “commentary” on the themes we explored there. I led worship times at this year’s “Sustainable Food and Farming”...
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“Amidst the glut of new worship music, Bryan Moyer Suderman offers a much-needed gift to the church: songs that all ages can sing together that ground us in the Person and Mission of God, and that are infectious in their simplicity. Here is the rare musician who writes songs...
read moreten years of smalltall songs
Ten years ago, on a January afternoon, I sat down on the living room floor with our then-3-year-old son, and sang, for the first time, “God’s love is for everybody, everyone around the world…” Little did I know that this song would open the floodgates, and that a new...
read morea rare podcast
It’s a rare podcast/interview indeed that covers everything from music to farming to faith to climate change to Bruce Cockburn and John Howard Yoder and the vocation of the church… rather far-ranging for a 20 minute podcast, even if for some reason I seemed to be speaking rather slowly...
read moremake room
Make room, make room, make room There’s something here that God wants to do You can be a part of it too So open up the door and make room In a little town there lived a young girl Engaged to be married to a carpenter When the stranger...
read moreless strident, still committed
Long-time readers of this blog and its predecessor may have noticed that I used to blog more about ecology and sustainability than I have for the last while. There are a number of reasons for this. 1. I started blogging about the same time as I started my “community...
read morepeople of God’s pace
I bet you think that’s a typo in the title of this post, don’t you? On Sunday morning I spoke/sang/led worship at “the red brick church” in Niagara… it was Peace Sunday… and the bulletin announced the hymn just prior to my input as “HWB #407 – We Are...
read morecolleagues and co-conspirators
One of the joys of going “on tour” is connecting with colleagues and co-conspirators all over the place. Last weekend at CMU it was good to re-connect with various colleagues in the world of academia. I love the way Walter Brueggemann, in his essay “Texts That Linger, Words That...
read moresongs popping up in interesting places
It’s always interesting to see where songs pop up. It’s heartening to hear from individuals, families, and congregations that are putting this music to good use. Recently I’ve become aware of a few new places in the world of publications where a song of mine has made an appearance:...
read morehere’s where it’ll be
This is the spot for future brilliant, witty, insightful and incisive blog posts (and for average, ordinary ones too). Blogging will commence shortly. You can find my former blog (with posts from 2006-August 2010)...
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