For those of you who support us on Patreon, you’ll already be familiar with David Benjamin Blower’s music. Each month he responds to a guest’s reflection with music and song. And out of these Devotionals has emerged the album Hymns for Nomads, a compilation of spirituals, murder ballads and campfire songs. It’s a record that invites us to pick up an instrument, to play, sing, join hands and have some hard-won hope.
So I met up with David to talk about why we sing together, why some of us have become suspicious of singing together, and some of the theme of his record; creation, the Holy Spirit, judgement, creatureliness and messianic hope.
If you’d like a copy of the record, head over to Nomad’s store, or Minor Artists. And if you’d like to follow David’s monthly Devotionals, you can find them on our Patreon page.
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Vanessa Chamberlin - A Spirituality of the Land (N317)
Selina Stone - Womanist Ways (N316)
Mark Karris - Healing From Hell (N315)
Cole Arthur Riley - Black Liturgies (N314)
Bethany Sollereder - Animal Suffering and the Love of God (N313)
Rachel Held Evans - Losing My Evangelical Religion [Revisited] (N312)
Christena Cleveland - A Spirituality of the Womb (N311)
Christmas Q&A (N310)
Jay Hulme - A Queer Journey of Saints and Sanctuaries (N309)
Dana Hicks - Reimagining Marriage (N308)
Ilia Delio - The Primacy of Love (N307)
Lindsay Munroe - Sexuality After Purity Culture (N306)
ChatGPT - In AI We Trust? (N305)
Nicola Slee - Abba Amma: Improvisations on the Lord's Prayer (N304)
David Blower - Farewell and Godspeed (N303)
Michael Frost - Deconstructing the Christian Narrative of Power (N302)
Sam Ewell - A Convivial Faith (N301)
Claire Gilbert - Revelations of Divine Love (N300)
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