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A beautiful little song by a new favorite, Jay-Jay Johanson.  Song of the week in my books!

Some new Norwegian tunes have made its way to my ears. I like it!
Listen to this one by Harrys Gym on spotify its called “The Dharma Bums”.

I have been reading and following the Catholic priest; George V. Coyne lately. His thoughts and ideas on God are very similar to those of Irenaeus. I propose in another blog post, that this is a Christianity which was lost to the dominant type A and B theologies. Read more about this here.
Coyne says the [...]

The book of Job is the oldest book of Scripture and it asks one of the oldest questions, ‘Is there hope?’ ‘Is there hope for a tree cut down? …Yes. At the mere scent of water it will bud and grow green shoots.’
From the album : hope for a tree cut down.
Beautiful, [...]

Watch and you will see there is hope for the world. Beautiful!
Check out the choirs website here.

I saw “Shut up and sing” at the Gothenburg film festival yesterday and it was fantastic.
In 2003, the female country band, The Dixie Chicks, are at the top of their game being one of the most successful bands of all time. However with the US invasion of Iraq about to begin over frustrated worldwide objections [...]

Bjørn Eidsvåg is a brilliant Norwegian singer. Here is one of his many beautiful songs performed by Elvira Nikolaisen and himself.

Dan Kimball writes on his blog, how he found a couple sermon transcripts by Nicky Gumbel. In those he found two letters written from individuals in churches, who were complaining about the song selection and music.
One letter said:
“I am no music scholar, but I feel I know appropriate church music when I hear it. [...]

Swedish TV (SVT) has just started to show the Norwegian TV series; “Berlinerpoplene”. It is fantastic! I love the pictures, the story and the fact that its a good Norwegian TV production. Not too many of those have come my way.

“Berlinerpoplene” is a series of 50-minute long episodes based on Anne B. Ragde books; “Berlinerpoplene” [...]

Todd Hunter took over the leadership of Vineyard after John Wimber passed away. He has now founded a new organisation called “3hreeisenough.” He is also working with the Emerging Church in different ways. In an interview with Next-wave was asked about Vineyard and John Wimber;
What was the most important thing you learned from John Wimber [...]