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jesusisliberalfullPOD!
by James Rockwood
In this Age of Trump, conservative Christians have been emboldened to call dibs on Jesus Himself. In doing this they’ve become bullies, long on talk, short on listen! In their doctrinal/political discourse they freely wield Jesus like a weapon. The truth is, IT’S NOT JESUS they’ve weaponized, but only their 2-dimensional understanding of Him. This site is designed to counter the conservative Christians’ static rhetoric about God and to reclaim the sacred name of Jesus for the benefit of ALL people. The podcast is an audio messaging feed that promotes the bible-based image of the Liberal Jesus, full stop!
Episodes
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The Big Blue Betty Part 2
Vs 5 With giant quantum steps I’m overtaking the challenge of balance. My birthright as youngest: in observing, I’ve learned. Arms over my head, like a monkey, I manage to steer. Using whole body torque, I churn with everything I am. I’m riding my grown sister’s blue bike on my own. I’m riding my...
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Out for a Drive No Destination in Mind Chapter Five
Vs: The drag coefficient would slow us down, or worse... Jerk us back and up—bending our course towards kingdom come. All the while, dancing and dropping, as we went, A potpourri of odds and ends: A potpourri of odds and ends: A potpourri of odds and ends: Vs: Baskets full of red and blinking...
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Out for a Drive No Destination in Mind Chapter Four
But we’d be well-advised, on our part, To pat ‘em down; finger through their index of pranks & antics; Because one of those clowns might well be packing A vertically broad-striped big top Held out there in the broad daylight Jumbled in amongst his prop-filled frolicking Jumbled in amongst his...
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Out for a Drive No Destination in Mind Chapter Three
Ch #2 Get cares out from under foot; It’s time to unload. We’ll roll it all out ‘long side the road As we roll along the side roads. Rolling and blipping on the seams As seeming endlessly rolling out as we roll. Vs When we stop to rest we might encounter some clowns. A troupe of bozos—deft at...
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Out for a Drive No Destination in Mind Chapter Two
Ch #1 Get cares out from under foot; Bind ‘em up (with) what dispenses off a big ball of rhyme. It’s time to unload—to air out the soul. We’ll roll it all out ‘long side the road As we roll along the side roads. Rolling and blipping on the seams As seeming endlessly rolling out as we roll. Vs...
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Out for a Drive No Destination in Mind Chapter One
Out for a Drive, No Destination in Mind Ch #1 Get cares out from under foot; Bind them up with what dispenses off a big ball of rhyme. It’s time to unload—to air out the soul. We’ll roll it all out ‘long side the road As we roll along the side roads. Rolling and blipping on the seams As seeming...
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Still Remembering
1 There’s a long-ago story we revisit every year. That presents a still-life image inside our brains. An image of a world that operated in ways less complicated. Our imaginations repaint us into a Currier and Ives scene. Bliss-filled feelings get reincarnated in our hearts. At that time when One...
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The High Winds Adventurer
The High Winds Adventurer With Signals to a Weather-vane 1 Singer from the high cliffs at the ends of the earth, Sender of whirling tales Bend them to issue out a far cry; Make them slap upon and off The sweat-faced rocks; Only to follow brooks, chase the geese flocks. Then to eventuate…
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The Big Blue Betty Part 1
Vs 1 One day I just saw her lying on the ground. I’d fixated on my sisters’ mastery of her workings: Axles, crank, gears, big wheels…messaged and fashioned For the solitary purpose (by some unknown genius), Of manufacturing propulsion for forward motion. Vs 2 Only 4 years old yet hyped on bennies...
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World Go Round
Vs In the beginning, she started spinning, Seemingly speeding off all on her own. Oh yes. An unending going was put in her motion That sprung from a God of abundant knowing. Vs Then God He made the man, Woman, from then on the clan. Next quest: to gain control Over wild wonder of this world...
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Truth Run Through
Vs The gray day dawns I’m all alone, The massive earth weighs on me. I’m given to wield beyond my steel; The way I make wears on me. Vs For what I’m known and what I own Is not the stuff I long for. Give me my turn to finally learn Though thoroughly will it burn me. Ch Truth run through, truth…
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God Botherers at Odds with All Others (immersive verse)
Verse Together we make up a buzzing swarm [hive] of deconstruction In our claiming “we are right!” simply because “we are Christians!” As god’s citizens, we are aimed at and hell-bent for heaven. Does god swell with pride while mollified in the viscosity of our praises? Or do we drag down our own...
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Bow Tie
BOW TIE Verse You can say with all certainty that clothes make the mannequin But clothes can’t make the man. You take somebody like a Jeffrey Dahmer, comb his hair Sprink on talc. Doll him up and slap a bow tie on him But doing all that won’t really change a thing. In the end, you'll NOT want him...
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News Is Good
News Is Good Vs Out of one comes all species, the galaxies. He puts them out in the billion varieties. He sets within us a route to find Him out. Let Him touch you. Don’t try to hold Him. Oh! We tend to hang on tightly to the known to the tried, Go by the rote—the rut we make runs wide, Runs…
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Beach Ball Gratitude
Beach Ball Gratitude 1 Tom Hanks in that movie had a substitute one. He drew a face on it. Called it Wilson (not Rita). It helped him keep his wits while castaway. And keep his hopes up and eventually Get him all the way back to the continent… Back (sort of) to the life he had before. 2 With a…
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Night Crossing
Night Crossing You—you’ve been tied up too long By politics of the men gone wrong. And you are stuck to the ground you are on There are those who would shoot you down. Get up. Get up. Get out. Get away. The Maker didn’t make it, didn’t mean it this way. Freedom to move you view as heaven sent…...
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Dream So Real
Dream So Real Intro I was caught up for a moment Or has it been forever I’ve been away? Now, I get mixed-up in mental weather Is it dream? Is it real? I cannot say! I get mixed-up in mental weather Is it dream? Is it real? I cannot say! Is it dream? Is it real? I cannot say! Vs I must have…
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Out of Bounds Narrated
Out of Bounds Narrated Intro Working, trying not to stumble Till I get me put head side up Turned right side around Repeat Vs Out of nowhere, I swear, there are times I could tear Out across the hills, over tops of trees Without machine, steering in the breeze Insensibly. On my way to You. Repeat...
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Roto-gyroman Chapter Three
1 Nearly 20 years on sees a post-apocalyptic Australia Starring Mel Gibson as Mad Max and he’s driving a Supercharged, arcade noir road roller—in search of fuel. And traveling with him, albeit over his head, We see a different Roto-Gyroman (a Gyro Captain) Bruce Spence rotoring across the big...
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Blade of the Plane
Blade of the Plane CH I’ve been told we’ve just so much control. My long-range sight stays straight so long, Then makes a bend for the ground. And I’ve learned about the other side of life; But the blade of the plane means to wound like a knife. Vs I know all about the relative time. I’ve heard...
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Boy Einstein
Boy Einstein Vs Ill placed in space and time Given to know in the youth of your prime. Who thought of you as a boy Einstein? They say you stripped off gears upstairs While it’s light speed you do (though unawares) Vs A flourish of genius then unfolding As the commonplace became more complacent.…
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Pronounced: i.mor’ tal
Episode 30: Pronounced: i.mor’ tal (Immersive Verse) Vs With the infant apprehending The nomenclature for all of nature I will be standing with this word. I will be standing with this word. As the ever-new infant, the fleeting glint Do I hold the soul of the word: immortal Ch Pronounced…
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Give Me a Piano
Episode 29: Give Me a Piano (Immersive Verse) Vs. 1 Give me a piano... I’ll give back the black and white Turned into colors you’ve not heard, All sorts of stories un-occurred. Vs. 2 Give me a pencil... And like a poker I’ll stir The ember coal in your soul Or maybe I will use it like Merlin’s…
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Beyond Science
Episode 28: Beyond Science (Immersive Verse) Beyond Science Vs It’s beyond science. Out of telescopic reach. Way over heads of those who think and speak and teach. Vs: It’s beyond science. When not looking you are shown. No formula no data, but still the truth be known. Br Now I’m taken in. I…
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House of Cards
Episode 27: Vs 1 Once I found life was living hard, too hard. Seeming like things were going: start...restart. I begin shuffling with the deck and building card on card. At first struggling to keep my structure from coming apart. Vs 2 Gravity defied—it named its own design. Me hoping madly, as if...
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Wright Flyer
Episode 26: Wright Flyer (Immersive Verse) Vs I’m busied figuring, listing facts that surely will astound; Crafting secret findings, I’m building to profound. I’m going to prove I’m not a lunatic, No, I’m not a liar Make it do what it will Just like they did the Wright Flyer. Vs Straining at…
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Glinda, Gwendolyn, Gretchen, Someone
Episode 25: Glinda, Gwendolyn, Gretchen, Someone (Immersive Verse) Vs Remember that scene from the big screen… Viewed larger-than-life, in Technicolor When the Good Witch—what was her name? Glinda, Gwendolyn, Gretchen, someone! Floated down from the sky in the nick of time. Burst out from a…
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Eye of God
Episode 24: Eye of God (Immersive Verse) Chorus: Eye of God, eye of God sees me Eye of God, eye of God reads me Like a sun burns down the dark around me Eye of God, warms me then frees me Verse: Sometimes I get caught in a tangle of living I’ll struggle, roll around trying to work it loose alone...
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Big, Like Fred Flintstone
Episode 23: Big, Like Fred Flintstone (Immersive Verse series) Vs The God that I’ve come to know. The One above, One thing I know of Him: Big Love. Sometimes it’s like He’s floating right there in front of me. Pumped up gigantic and hovering free. Vs The God that I’ve come to know. The One above,...
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Roto-gyroman Chapter Two
Episode 22: Roto-gyroman Chapter Two (Immersive Verse series) 1963: Beach Boys, pre-Beatles Gyroboy: pre-adolescence Down in the cellar, one day, discovers mom’s old wringer/washer Rolled back in a corner. Out of water. Out of order. Instinctively, he climbs aboard, puts her into light drive!…
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Mist of Distance
Episode 21: Mist of Distance (Immersive Verse series) Coming in out of the mist of distance Accorded by a crowding sky And by the dancing planets Purveying Age of Omega: the Maker of everything… Even so come, Lord Jesus! Flying forth o’er the eternal span, Bridging vast, seeming dead space, A…
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The Thread
Episode 20: The Thread (Immersive Verse series) Vs Now what was it the old man said? Through each life runs a significance thread. Like a spine connecting Random splashes of events Making out of the senseless days, a sense. Vs This thread sometimes (like a lifeline) Will run the distance back to...
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Roto-gyroman Chapter One
Episode 19: Roto-gyroman Chapter One (Immersive Verse series) 1 Roto-Gyroman started out life a Roto-Gyroboy The rotary-notion first seeded in the soil of his imagination From there it quickly sprouted wings for hovering up off the ground Not fixed wings but ones that spun, Like blades (a…
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Like Life but Better
Episode 18: Like Life but Better (Immersive Verse series) 1 A day will come when something like Life but better issues in When all the knees will bend All faces turn to look on Him 2 And the earth will grow greener then The air drawn in easy then The living much more lively then When Jesus comes...
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Crucifix Rump
Episode 17: Crucifix-Rump (Immersive Verse series) VS Crucifix Rump; the Donald! “The Terror” “The Terrible” Think “Terrorist-in-Chief” Glowing in bold relief Against any semblance of competence That…plus Mike Pence. VS His pledge is: “Make America Grate!” Think “bone-on-bone”; “claw-on-slate”....
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Truth Is Only True
Episode 16 Truth Is Only True (Immersive Verse series) Br Version truth won’t cut it Don’t matter how you strut it Dress it up, sleight-of-hand it. In the end, just the one commandment! Ch 1 The truth is only true; It’s nothing to do with point of view! Truth is always true Not soiled or worn...
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Pumps Hummed, Voices Prayed
Episode 15: Pumps Hummed, Voices Prayed (Immersive Verse) Intro Can’t see the forest for the trees. A nation nobbled to its knees. Our civilization on the skids. What will we tell the kids? 1 Bullies derided while innocents were hiding. Teargas sprayed while limbs akimbo, splayed. Pumps hummed…
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Bigger Voice
Episode 14: Bigger Voice immersive mix (Immersive Verse) Vs I talk from time to time Of a thing I can’t explain Of a thing with which no words will work... Point out what’s what and why I could go on without a pause But until the Bigger Voice I’m all garbled mumbled noise Ch Hear the Bigger Voice...
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Laughing with the Angels
Episode 13: Laughing with the Angels (Immersive Verse series) 1 Been schooled in building up A vehicle to move you It’s a well-tooled shinning machine Built to outdistance the crowd It takes a bit to master the controls But once up and running It’s hard it’s hard to shut her down 2 About the age…
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Once Around the Universe
Episode 12: Once Around the Universe (Immersive Verse series) Vs I stumbled on her (literally), a heap One night in the gutter of the street. She’s just an old hag wearing about 50 lbs. of rags They gather to her like coral to the reef. Br Well I helped her to her feet. Her breath assaulted me…
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I’m the Helen Keller
Episode 11: I’m the Helen Keller (Immersive Verse series) ******************** Ch: I’m the Helen Keller Mingling clueless amidst the stellar Standing—as in a lineup—against a wall A child in amongst the pillars or towers of light 1: And like Miss Annie Sullivan With her long arm of the scholar…
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Waking up in the Universe
Episode 10: Waking up in the Universe (Immersive Verse series) 1 The 1st time I saw her, it was on the news I was repulsed Being his niece, she visually resembles him, So much so, I couldn’t look at her face w/o seeing his. My conditioned reflex wanted me to role them into one… Make them...
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Forest of Days
Episode 09: Forest of Days (Immersive Verse series) Forest of Days Vs: When embedded in fetters of the night Silhouettes and shadows are confusing your sight A ceiling of leaves is diffusing the light We're in the forest of days. Vs: When right information so seldom gets in: Which end is up…
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Hang on to Him
Episode 08: Hang on to Him! (Immersive Verse series) Vs: He’s cool water to the thirsty man. Dry land to the drowning man. To the fragile baby He’s a gentle hand. He’s up there, all ears, for every praying woman and man. He’s the answer to the question. Alpha! The Beginning and the End. Omega!…
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Tech In Lab
Episode 07: Tech In Lab (Immersive Verse series) Technician in a lab Concocting and constructing Animation’s inner workings Making as if out of nothing Appendages and Hinges Strung with rubber bandings No puppeteering rig But poetry in motion. Strung with rubber bandings... Technician in a lab....
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The Manikin Narrated (Immersive Mix)
Episode 06: The Manikin (Immersive Verse series) 1 The manikin coming. It’s the manikin. The manikin coming. It’s the manikin. The manikin coming. It’s the manikin. The manikin coming. It’s the manikin. He’s got texturized skin, porcelain grin. The manikin coming. It’s the manikin. The manikin...
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Can You Hear Me Back There?
Br Sermon on the Mount before getting to His talk Maybe Jesus posed a question, A quick question to the crowd: “Can you hear me at the back?” “I see you people here in front All of you sitting over there, I trust you can see me okay And can hear me loud and clear. But I can’t see anyone way in…
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Pulse of the Light
Episode 04: Pulse of the Light (Immersive Verse Series) Ch1: The pulse beats out beacon in the nighttime The pulse beats through deeps of inky sky The pulse beats down halls of broken dreaming Echoing the cry of legend light. Br: Pulse of the light - The Light beating, etc. Vs: Mid mystery and...
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LOVE
Episode 03: Love (Immersive Verses series) VS LOVE really pops against a backdrop of sin... It’s a silent deep to still a deafening din. Or a crystal soaring voice over a sea of white noise. It’s buried cuisine in a sack of sh#t sandwiches. Then a spike of perfect along a flat line of averages.…
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The New Adventures of the Day-to-day
Episode 02: The New Adventures of the Day-To-Day (Immersive Verses series) The New Adventure of the Day-to-day Vs: Carpe diem. Nil desperandum. Don’t you give into the sediment of sentiment. Lean more in with an abutment-like granite That’s somehow soul-solid—lively—not stolid and build on that....
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In this Age of Trump, conservative Christians have been emboldened to call dibs on Jesus Himself. In doing this they’ve become bullies, long on talk, short on listen! In their doctrinal/political discourse they freely wield Jesus like a weapon. The truth is, IT’S NOT JESUS they’ve weaponized, but only their 2-dimensional understanding of Him. This site is designed to counter the conservative Christians’ static rhetoric about God and to reclaim the sacred name of Jesus for the benefit of ALL people. The podcast is an audio messaging feed that promotes the bible-based image of the Liberal Jesus, full stop!
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