We don’t think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking. – Richard Rohr How do you respond to the above quote from my personal “guidance counselor,” Fr. Rohr? Does it make sense to you? I was raised to believe in God and that Jesus was The Son. There was a lot of modeling in my family for what Christian love is. My Mom was [...]
Fun Fact No. 1- Dance Floor Inspiration 1) We played this beautiful room called THE CLUB in Birmingham, AL. Film director John Badham ‘s family is from Birmingham, AL. THE CLUB has a big poster of Badham’s classic film, “Saturday Night Fever” on their wall. The story goes John B. was visiting THE CLUB and was inspired by the incredible dance floor for his own film. Fun Fact No. 2- A [...]
I'm not here to sell you on anything -- if you like the music, thanks! if you like talking about spiritual stuff, awesome! if you like history and trivia, fabumundo! But I'm not selling anything other than, well...I guess the word that comes to mind is: connection. And then another word after that: community. We all have a very unique journey in our lives. My observation is that how we live basically comes [...]
Why do an album of hymns anyway? The word comes from the Greek "hymnos," a sacred song or poem. Since most everything having to do with the Christian church was translated through the Greeks, that's why we call our church songs "hymns" now (our Jewish brothers and sisters call them "piyutim" and our Muslim family calls them "nasheeds"). To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of the traditional Christian hymnal. [...]
