The Village Half-Wit: Audio of "Beautiful Anyway"

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Audio of "Beautiful Anyway"

I've divided it into 3 parts:
Segment 1 (13 min; 15 MB), featuring "Anyway" by Nichole Nordeman from her Wide-eyed cd as invocation at the worship gathering where this story is told.
Segment 2 (12 min; 14 MB)
Segment 3 (18 min; 21 MB), featuring "Oh Lord Your Love" by Caedmon's Call from their In The Company Of Angels: A Call To Worship cd as benediction.

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Remembrance... Embodiment... Anticipation

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inspired by an oft forgotten poem by Sterling A. Brown. Most of the Village Half-wit tales somehow involve a fictional character named Sentinel "Sent" St. Common, affectionately known to many as Revelations. Revelations strives to give those who dare hear him the tools to imagine new possibilities in their world.

The tales shared here are from two distinct periods in Revelations' life. Some are from the future, when in retirement Revelations spends leisurely days on his favorite park bench, feeding wildlife, playing checkers, reading whatever he can get his hands on and spinning yawns for whomever will listen. It is in the future (2032 to be exact) that he meets Langstyn Huse (another figment of Melvin Bray's imagination), the young artist who begins to publish Revelations stories. As the actual editor of this content, she also takes the liberty to post her own future musings here from time to time as well.

On the other hand, many posts found her are from the present in which Revelations is the young senior pastor of a prominent fictional church, Ralph David Abernathy All Kindreds Cathedral, in the West End of Atlanta, GA. While leader of that congregation, Revelations decides that in light of resurrection he should never quietly abide complacency. Whatever he has to do to get those around him to taste, hear, smell and feel what he calls "the myth of kingdom-come," he will.

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: Name: <a href="http://melvinbray.com"><b>Melvin Bray</b></a>, coordinating storyteller; Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Here's the question that motivates me: How do we tell the stories of our faith in such a way that others—particularly our children—don't have to re-traverse the same valley of shadows we've come through to retain faith?

Many parents have realized that if we share the stories of scripture with our children the way they were told to us, our kids could grow up as miseducated as we ourselves often feel. Why not equip them to chart new territory?

I invite you to join me in re-telling our stories. Submit your re-imaginings of the biblical narrative to the e-mail below, and let's see where God leads us.

Although we may intuitively recognize the need for a 'post-ism' articulation of the biblical narrative, it helps if we can prove a real market for it. Your activity on this blog does that. So don't neglect to invite friends!

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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Audio of "Beautiful Anyway"

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