Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Significance Of Place, Structure Of Belonging Jeff Gold on the Paradisical Jazz Club One underrated quality of the jazz scene in the 1940s and 50s was its racial integration. Music does that – it draws people together into common spaces. That it no…
Leaving Egypt and Pharaoh, Reader, Structure Of Belonging, The Abundant Community, Wilderness: Sharing and Reorientation Falling in Love with Liberation Reverend Lisa Yebuah is the lead minister of Southeast Raleigh Table, a multicultural, multigenerational church from the Methodist tradition embedded in Raleigh, North Carolina's historically Black region. In conversation with…
Imagination: The Prophetic Act of Living an Alternative Narrative, Possibly: Freedom for A New Story, Reader, Structure Of Belonging The Communal Stories of Jazz We are always down for a good story here at Common Good. Jazz is a story told by an ensemble — every instrument, voice, and lyric adding colors and context and…
Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Structure Of Belonging As If It Were “This Is Our Music” Nathaniel Mackey is a prolific poet, novelist, editor, critic, and the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University and a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Much…
Possibly: Freedom for A New Story, Reader, Structure Of Belonging Nona Hendryx and Women Who Fly “There’s no such thing as the future,” Nona Hendryx, member of the groundbreaking group Labelle said to writer Emily Lordi during their interview. It was just hours before the first…
