Here is Bruce Springsteen’s new video for his song “We take
Care of Our Own” from the forthcoming album “Wrecking Ball” - the biting,
acute irony in the song with the title and repeated lyrics, “…we take care of
our own…” is a prophetic utterance that the bards and poets have so often been
able to give and far too often have been ignored...a call to radical and revolutionary community.
"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to
loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the
oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the
hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked,
to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your
light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be
your rear guard.”
~ Isaiah 58:6-8
“From Chicago to New Orleans
From the muscle to the bone
From the shotgun shack to the Superdome
We yelled "help" but the cavalry stayed home
There ain't no-one hearing the bugle blown….
From the muscle to the bone
From the shotgun shack to the Superdome
We yelled "help" but the cavalry stayed home
There ain't no-one hearing the bugle blown….
Where the eyes, the eyes with the will to see
Where the hearts, that run over with mercy
Where's the love that has not forsaken me
Where's the work that set my hands, my soul free
Where's the spirit that'll reign, reign over me
Where's the promise, from sea to shining sea…”
Where the hearts, that run over with mercy
Where's the love that has not forsaken me
Where's the work that set my hands, my soul free
Where's the spirit that'll reign, reign over me
Where's the promise, from sea to shining sea…”
~ Bruce Springsteen
“If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen
film or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol
better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations.
One theologian suggested that Springsteen’s Tunnel
of Love album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair, and
redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope’s last visit when he
spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions. Troubadours have always been
more important and influential than theologians and bishops.”
~ Brennan Manning, A
Ragamuffin Gospel
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