“Christmas Eve”
photograph by KFS (2025)
“BIG Gospel Project”: a work-in-progress
Q: Why “BIG”?
A: Because the Gospel is BIGGER than any of us?
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Q: Which “Gospel”?
A: The Good News Gospel of the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recounted by the New Testament… and as passed down through traditions of persons on the underside of history who have hungered and thirsted for Good News that the world of earthly power cannot give.
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Q: What does your BIG Gospel Project have to do with Gospel music?
A: As a BIG Gospel Project… we believe music is BIGGER than any style of music. We do our best to share the Gospel with music that is true to us. While some of us have sung in Gospel Choirs, and one of us played bass in a Divinity School Gospel Choir… our BIG Gospel Project, by virtue of the cultural heritages of our current members, tends closer to Bluegrass Gospel music than to African American Gospel music. Of course, as our membership may evolve, this too may shift. Again, while maintaining all due humility, we like to think BIG 🙂
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Q: Why “Project”?
A: We look to how the Gospel may be inviting us to stretch… to widen circles… to extend beyond that-which-currently-is. While “yesterday’s solutions are today’s problems… and today’s solutions will be tomorrow’s problems” (and so on), we imagine that this shared venture will be in a continuous state of revision… a project of precariousness and, admittedly, sometimes peculiarity. In any event, a labor of love. A project.
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Q: Anything else?
A: Yes. “BIG” also is an acronym for blue-in-green… because we appreciate the blues… and green theology… as well as the song, “Blue In Green” by jazz pianist, Bill Evans (https://youtu.be/HxEbT_opgQM?si=NWAjHaa4XLU32guA)
P.S. Here’s an expression of the theological humility which we bring to the BIG Gospel:
(Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz – August 9, 1976)
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