Do y’all know about Greenbelt? I don’t want to get too dramatic about it, but I’d say it saved my life a little over thirty years ago. I heard tell of it through Nick Barre just before I journeyed with Lee Smithey over to Newcastle, Northern Ireland to live and work at the
Movements may begin with changes in different places that then stretch out to connect with each other. I had never heard of Greenbelt until now, but now i know it was one of those places that made a clearing for the movement we see all around us now.
I learned about Greenbelt about 10 days ago via a reference in Bruce Cockburn's bio (needed a hymn which included a rocket launcher). My current tribe does backflips in regard to instrumental music's proper role in Christian worship (none, apparently); the "pretext" being that the early church never psallo-ed with a psallo, allegedly (exegesis with a predetermined result makes for tricky theology). The whole prophetic-harp-exorcism theme [the hand of man calling the hand of God prayer-ritual] is never mentioned in the discussions (of a fellowship with many members of secret societies with their own unrenounced "rival deities"). Anyway, ethnomusicology and church music in a world of audio learners and nonliterate disciples mean psalms, hymns, and spiritual odes (as well as ASLV gospels) are still harnessing energy from the heaven dimensions. Prophesy should not be despised though well discerned -- often in communal gatherings (see also Scottish holy fairs and American revivalism, including Cane Ridge).
PS if I assert this is all metaphor can I still get tenure?
Movements may begin with changes in different places that then stretch out to connect with each other. I had never heard of Greenbelt until now, but now i know it was one of those places that made a clearing for the movement we see all around us now.
I learned about Greenbelt about 10 days ago via a reference in Bruce Cockburn's bio (needed a hymn which included a rocket launcher). My current tribe does backflips in regard to instrumental music's proper role in Christian worship (none, apparently); the "pretext" being that the early church never psallo-ed with a psallo, allegedly (exegesis with a predetermined result makes for tricky theology). The whole prophetic-harp-exorcism theme [the hand of man calling the hand of God prayer-ritual] is never mentioned in the discussions (of a fellowship with many members of secret societies with their own unrenounced "rival deities"). Anyway, ethnomusicology and church music in a world of audio learners and nonliterate disciples mean psalms, hymns, and spiritual odes (as well as ASLV gospels) are still harnessing energy from the heaven dimensions. Prophesy should not be despised though well discerned -- often in communal gatherings (see also Scottish holy fairs and American revivalism, including Cane Ridge).
PS if I assert this is all metaphor can I still get tenure?
Whoa Brian Eno listed as a speaker in the lineup this year. Not normal. https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/2023-lineup/
Brian was there last year too (I think).