“Our Better Angels” Album Release, Gemstones in the Sun Movement Chaplains, Festival Center: Building a Space for Justice
Award-winning Azalea City Recordings artist, Washington Folk Festival favorite and long-time Church of the Saviour member Jesse Palidofsky teams up with an All-Star band featuring clarinetist/saxophonist Seth Kibel, violinist Christine Kharazian, bassist Bob Abbott and harmony vocalist/percussionist Rachel MorganIm for the Folklore Society of Greater Washington-sponsored livestream release of Jesse’s new recording, Our Better Angels–which was produced in Toronto by world class producer Ken Whiteley. Come celebrate hundreds of millions of Covid vaccination shots […]
Would You Like to Come With Me? – Mar. 26, 2021
“All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like. All of us evoke vague notions of community and compassion, yet how many of us went out to find an intimate other, to bring them with us […]
Practicing Community – Mar. 25, 2021
“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination. A body of critical theory is now available that explains all the workings of white-supremacist thought and racism. But explanations alone do not bring us to the […]
No One Left Behind – Feb. 1, 2021
“There is a string of stories in which Jesus casts out unclean spirits. Whenever these spirits see him, they fall down and cry out. As a modern person, what are we to make of these stories? What they mean is this: Jesus engages in battle the things that [people believe] render one unclean and outside […]
