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Thursday, December 23, 2010
In the Face of Christmaslet us ask God for a good Christmas:
that no powerful nation
should tax the poor
or uproot them;
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that no unmarried mother
should be put away in disgrace;
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that no door will be shut
on those that need to find it open;
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that shepherds and sheep and all of nature
need not be afraid;
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that walls, barbed wire and angry soldiers
may not be found in Bethlehem;
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that wise men and wise women
might appear in Wales, in Scotland, in Ireland, in England,
in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in your street;
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that children may be preserved
from those who would abuse them;
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that this Christmas,
you may become a manger
and your home a stable
and the rumour become a reality
that Christ has come among us.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Applauseby my friend Peter Barratt on a trip to Cambodia
They clap when you finish a prayer or sermon in Cambodia
So what’s next? Marks out of 10?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to X-Factor
The Very Rev Simon Cowell will now give feedback:
‘Good prayer, but at 27 minutes a tad too long for me’
‘A powerful sermon on social media; I particularly liked the way
You stayed in bed and spoke via a 3D hologram’
‘In your prayer you used the word ‘just’ 39 times in three minutes’
‘I recommend next time you pray in tongues.
It’s more intelligible than your Belfast accent’
I think God applauds us just for trying.
The best prayers are usually
Inarticulate groans of the heart.
The best sermons are the ones you live out.
So when things are getting tough
Listen hard and imagine:
The angels whoopin’ and hollerin’
The saints shouting out encouragement from the sidelines
And Jesus, giving you the big thumbs up,
With a card in his hand
That simply says ’10.’
60+ tracks in 2 hours
This is the peak of the year in terms of my music.
I love it love it.
Gilles Peterson
UK based humans can listen to it for 7 days from now
BBC iPlayer hey hey
Gilles celebrates a year of great music with his All Winners 2010, playing the best tunes from the last 12 months.
It was a busy show with Gilles getting through over 60 tracks in two hours - watch out for heavy tunes from Mala, Mount Kimbie, John Legend, Flying Lotus, Scuba, Ramadanman, Mosca, Jay Electronica, SBTRKT, James Blake, Janelle Monae and, of course, Cee Lo's I Want You.
Music and featured items
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The Rongetz Foundation — Broken Doll Beat
Heavenly Sweetness -
Nick Rosen — Ancestral Echoes
Porter -
John Blake Jr — Motherless Child
Arc -
Quest — Smooth Skin
Deep Medi -
Grace Jones — Love You To Life (Digital Mystikz Remix)
Wall Of Sound -
Mala — Eyez
DMZ -
Koreless — 4 D
CDR -
Ramadanman — Glut
Hemlock -
Mount Kimbie — Blind Night Errand
Hotflush -
Bonobo & Andreya Triana — Eyes Down (Floating Points Remix)
Ninja Tune -
Joy Orbison — The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow
Aus Music -
Sepalcure — Love Pressure
Hotflush -
Scuba — You Got Me
Hotflush -
MJ Cole & Wiley — From The Drop
Prolific -
Girl Unit — Wut
Night Slugs -
Dark Sky — Reflex
Pictures Music -
Gonjasufi — Ancestors
Warp -
Jyoti — First Stitches
SomeOthaShip -
Bilal — Move On
Plug Research -
Taylor McFerrin — A Place In My Heart
White -
John Legend — Hang On In There
GOOD Music -
Rick Ross — Maybach Music III feat. T.I., Jadakiss & Erykah Badu
Def Jam -
John Legend feat. Kanye West — Blame Game
Roc-A-Fella -
Erykah Badu — Window Seat
Universal Motown -
Homeboy Sandman — Parallel Perpendicular
2 Hungry Brothers Records -
The Roots feat. Blu, Phonte & Patty Crash — The Day
Def Jam Recordings| -
Shad — Yaa I Get It (Oddisee Remix)
Black Box Recordings -
Aloe Blacc — Dollar
Stones Throw -
Big Boi — Shutterbug
Def Jam -
Jai Paul — Btstu
XL -
Baths — Lovely Bloodflow
Anticon -
MdCL & Rahel — Hope
Alala Records -
Raashan Ahmad — Pain On Black
Om -
Gil Scott-Heron — New York Is Killing Me feat. Mos Def
XL -
Theophilus London — Calypso Blues
White -
Nas & Damian Marley — As We Enter
Universal Republic -
Brasstrnaught — Good Times
White -
Janelle Monáe — Locked Inside
Bad Boy Entertainment -
Great Weekend — Let’s Do It Again
Do-Over -
Cerrone — Hooked On You (Kon Re-Edit)
White -
Scuba — So You Think You’re Special (Joe Remix)
Hessle -
Gold Panda — Snow & Taxis
Ghostly International| -
Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band — Rezando (Michel Cleis
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Untitled
Remix) (Brownswood)
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Ogris Debris — Miezekatze
Estrela -
Wbeeza — He So Crazy
Third Ear Recordings -
Kode9 — Don't Wash Dub (Actress Remix)
!K7 -
Doc Daneeka — Hold On
Ramp -
SBTRKT & Sampha — Look At Stars
Young Turks -
Flying Lotus — Mmm Hmm
Warp -
James Blake — Cmyk
R&S -
Jamie Woon — Night Air (Ramadanman Remix)
Candent Songs -
Caribou — Sun
Midland Edit -
Roska — I Need Love
Rinse -
Four Tet — Sing (Mosca Remix)
XL -
The 2 Bears — Be Strong
Southern Fried -
Ramadanman & Midland — Your Words Matter
Aus Music -
T Williams feat. Terri Walker — Heartbeat
Mosca Remix -
Kink — E79
Ovum Recordings -
Lone — Once In A While
Werk Discs -
Cee Lo Green — I Want You (Demo Version)
White -
Jay Electronica — Exhibit C
Decon -
Shuya Okino — Still In Love
White -
Ezel — In my Lifetime
Deetron Remix
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
I have decided that I don't agree with WikY leakY.
If any leaks are about injustice
That's OK then
I believe that light needs shining in the dark corners.
I feel journalists love all this
it feeds the monster.
I don't think they would be happy
if their dirty washing was hung in public.
Do they have rights?
Does the private musings of governments?
In the process of being strategic
we consider all options
expand/stretch the the thinking
before deciding action.
I don't want all that leaked
but
Injustice is oppression.
Injustice needs to be opened
but not all the tittle tattle.
I don't warm to the key figure in all this
he has a massive PR machine in process
it is all one sided.
We are constantly bombarded
by his image+Lawer
mounting PR pre trial.
He is required to face justice in Sweden
Guilty/innocent?
Justice is about dealing with that.
He feeds off publicity.
Some opinions above
I normally do feelings.
Strange goings on
big picture under scrutiny
hmmmmmm
Here is a story that inspires me ........
Dear pip,
We inspire millions to faith in action.
I want to share this inspiring story with you. I hope it will have the same effect on you as it has on me.
A few weeks ago, I called Steve Stone, pastor of Heartsong Church in Tennessee and a Sojourners reader, to thank him for his courageous witness of loving his neighbor.
He welcomed an Islamic community center to his neighborhood. The story of his church’s hospitality was aired on CNN. Shortly afterward, he received a call from a group of Muslims in Kashmir who’d seen the segment. They shared with him that after watching it, one of the community’s leaders said to those who were gathered: “God just spoke to us through this man.” One man went straight to the local Christian church and proceeded to clean it, inside and out, because of his desire to be a good neighbor too. They told Pastor Stone that “we’re going to keep taking care of this little church for the rest of our lives.”
When I told Steve how he made me proud to be a Christian, he turned the tables. He wanted to thank Sojourners for all the inspiration we’ve provided for him and his church.
“What do you think has kept us going?” he asked me.
Steve’s affirmation of Sojourners’ work has reminded me of what encourages me most:
It’s not just the work Sojourners does – it’s the work we inspire.
If we have inspired, encouraged, or informed you this year, we need you to make a gift to Sojourners today!
I am convinced that our voice is needed now more than ever. Proverbs 29:18 says, “Without a vision the people perish.” Without a vision, the people who feel like they are perishing are angry and afraid, which we saw reflected in November’s election results.
Sojourners’ role is to offer up a vision for the faith community and for the nation. It’s a vision that neither the right nor the left, Republicans nor Democrats can offer. Only a social movement with a prophetic voice compelled by a biblical call to social justice can offer that vision.
Our work inspires a variety of people on a spectrum of social justice issues – from alleviating poverty to finding solutions for a responsible withdrawal from Afghanistan to advocating for comprehensive immigration reform.
Individual Christians tell me how that inspiration has guided their vocation, ministry, life choices, and family values.
Churches tell me how that inspiration has led them into their communities to do acts of compassion and social justice in Jesus' name.
National church leaders and local pastors have told me for three decades that Sojourners helps teach them how to fulfill the biblical mandate to be "prophetic" in their society. They tell me we have given them the courage to "stand up."
Political leaders call when they want support for “doing the right thing,” and the most courageous young elected officials tell me they want to be a part of a “conviction caucus.”
And now, it’s a whole generation of young people who want their faith and their lives to make a difference, and say they now look to us for mentoring. We have the opportunity to help shape the faith of the next generation.
Your support is critical to the work that we inspire, and we really depend on you. A generous friend of Sojourners has offered to match your donation – up to $50,000! Make your gift have double impact – give today!
Blessings,
Jim Wallis
President and CEO, Sojourners
P.S. 2010 has been a critical year for our prophetic call for moral recovery in this economic crisis. I want to share my most recent book, Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street. Send in a gift of $100 or more, and we’ll send this book to you as a special gift.
Sojourners, 3333 14th St NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20010
Copyright 2010 Sojourners All Rights Reserved.
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Dear pip,
We inspire millions to faith in action.
I want to share this inspiring story with you. I hope it will have the same effect on you as it has on me.
A few weeks ago, I called Steve Stone, pastor of Heartsong Church in Tennessee and a Sojourners reader, to thank him for his courageous witness of loving his neighbor.
He welcomed an Islamic community center to his neighborhood. The story of his church’s hospitality was aired on CNN. Shortly afterward, he received a call from a group of Muslims in Kashmir who’d seen the segment. They shared with him that after watching it, one of the community’s leaders said to those who were gathered: “God just spoke to us through this man.” One man went straight to the local Christian church and proceeded to clean it, inside and out, because of his desire to be a good neighbor too. They told Pastor Stone that “we’re going to keep taking care of this little church for the rest of our lives.”
When I told Steve how he made me proud to be a Christian, he turned the tables. He wanted to thank Sojourners for all the inspiration we’ve provided for him and his church.
“What do you think has kept us going?” he asked me.
Steve’s affirmation of Sojourners’ work has reminded me of what encourages me most:
It’s not just the work Sojourners does – it’s the work we inspire.
If we have inspired, encouraged, or informed you this year, we need you to make a gift to Sojourners today!
I am convinced that our voice is needed now more than ever. Proverbs 29:18 says, “Without a vision the people perish.” Without a vision, the people who feel like they are perishing are angry and afraid, which we saw reflected in November’s election results.
Sojourners’ role is to offer up a vision for the faith community and for the nation. It’s a vision that neither the right nor the left, Republicans nor Democrats can offer. Only a social movement with a prophetic voice compelled by a biblical call to social justice can offer that vision.
Our work inspires a variety of people on a spectrum of social justice issues – from alleviating poverty to finding solutions for a responsible withdrawal from Afghanistan to advocating for comprehensive immigration reform.
Individual Christians tell me how that inspiration has guided their vocation, ministry, life choices, and family values.
Churches tell me how that inspiration has led them into their communities to do acts of compassion and social justice in Jesus' name.
National church leaders and local pastors have told me for three decades that Sojourners helps teach them how to fulfill the biblical mandate to be "prophetic" in their society. They tell me we have given them the courage to "stand up."
Political leaders call when they want support for “doing the right thing,” and the most courageous young elected officials tell me they want to be a part of a “conviction caucus.”
And now, it’s a whole generation of young people who want their faith and their lives to make a difference, and say they now look to us for mentoring. We have the opportunity to help shape the faith of the next generation.
Your support is critical to the work that we inspire, and we really depend on you. A generous friend of Sojourners has offered to match your donation – up to $50,000! Make your gift have double impact – give today!
Blessings,
Jim Wallis
President and CEO, Sojourners
P.S. 2010 has been a critical year for our prophetic call for moral recovery in this economic crisis. I want to share my most recent book, Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street. Send in a gift of $100 or more, and we’ll send this book to you as a special gift.
Sojourners, 3333 14th St NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20010
Copyright 2010 Sojourners All Rights Reserved.
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