Arts and Music at Redeemer

On the night of the Great Vigil, local jazz musician and Redeemer parishioner Hunter Close performed a musical interpretation of Ezekiel 36:24-28.

Hunter says that John Coltrane’s album “A Love Supreme” is one of his inspirations for this piece.

Ezekiel 36:24-28

Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

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On the night of the Great Vigil, I read a short story that I wrote about Israel’s deliverance through the Red Sea.

In honor of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, this story is free to read and adapt under a Creative Commons license.

- Wade

Download the PDF file here

Listen to the audio of the reading here

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