America – Tracy Chapman
America – Santana
All the Way from America – Joan Armatrading
America My Home – Buffy Sainte-Marie
America, Where Did You Go? – Charlie King
American Dream – Raye Zaragoza
American Dream – will.I.am
American Tune – Eva Cassidy
Black America Again – Common, feat. Stevie Wonder
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
For America – Jackson Browne
Green Fields of America – Eileen Ivers
The Hands That Build America – U2
I Am America – Shea Diamond
Winger in America – Gil Scott-Heron
Let America Be America Again (by Langston Hughes) – James Earl Jones
Category Archives: Current Events
4 July 2023
Filed under Current Events, Louisville, Music, playlist
15 May 2023
Nakba Day.
Yalli El Qumar – Mohammed Assaf
Sabs Adresse – Ramzi Azoredwan
Daughters of the desert – Rim Banna feat. Bugge Wesseltoft & Checkpoint 503
Wanabani – Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler
Song for Palestine – Nora Roman & The Border Busters
Passport – Marcel Khalife
Desert – Rasha Nahas
Palestine – DJ Bruno Cruz
Palestinian Resistance – PR
Suffocated Electronics – Muqataa
The Dice Man – Michael Sajrawy
To Change Tomorrow – DAM
The Third Generation – Dmar
Beast – Jowan Safadi
Oh Kufye Man – Wala’ Sbeit
No Longer Mine – Zaman
Palestine: Fida’i (Revolutionary), “My country, the land of my grandfathers…” – Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra & Peter Breiner
Ibn el Balad (instr.) – Ensemble musical de Palestine
Filed under Current Events, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
3 May 2023
Banner – Run River North
You Won – Jennifer Chung
PHX – Mel Hsu
I Don’t Belong to You – MILCK
Monsters Calling Home – Run River North
Run Away = Manilla Killa
Mother – Magdalen Hsu-Li
Home – Heems, feat. Dev Hynes
Background – Ruby Ibarra, et. Ann One
Pili Mi Ka’i Manu – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Waters of Monaco – ZHU
Architects of December – Sera
Wallflower – Priscilla Ahn
Tap Sticks – Emily Wurramara
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Louisville, Music, playlist
2 May 2023
Ka’iulii – Justin
foxbeard – Run River North
The Morning Will Come – Jennifer Chung
Old Time Rebelion – Awaaz Do
All Hawai’i Stand Together – Dennis Pavao
This Is Not the End – MILCK
crux – Mel Hsu
1993 – Manilla Killa
Good Night – Hikaru Utada
Fire – Magdalene Hsu-Li
Realla – TOKiMONSTA, feat. Anderson .Paak
Ka Pua U’i – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Guilty Love – ZHU
princess beach – Shawn Wasabi
Somos Asiaticos (We Are Asians) – “Charlie” Chin, Chris Kando Iijima & Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Louisville, Music, playlist
A prayer to bear one another’s burdens
God who bears the hurt of the world,
we pray for the grace, courage, and wisdom
to bear one another’s burdens,
to sit in silence with your children
who are in pain,
who grieve,
who endure heartbreak beyond our imagining;
to sit in silence
until a place of love is reached.
Amen.
inspired by a sermon preached by Elder Madison McKinney (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate and a descendent of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) for National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit People (May 5), a part of the May 1-7 National Week of Action for MMIWG2S
Filed under Current Events, Friends, Human Rights, Prayer
#MMIWG2S #NoMoreStolenRelatives
A playlist of songs for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People and those who love them.
Nikki Shawana – Sister Round Dance Song (MMIW Honour Song)
Song for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women – Jayda Gadwa
Performance for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women – music by A Tribe Called Red
Women’s Fancy Shawl Dance – Red Pheasant Powwow
Qiksaaktuq – Tanya Tagaq andToronto Symphony Orchestra
The Highway – N’we Jinan Artists, Kitsumkalum First Nation, BC.
Break the Silence – N’we Jinan Artists – Wauzhushk Onigum First Nation, ONT
Song for Murdered and Mission Indigenous Women – West Shore Canoe Family
Run Sister Run – Cass McCombs
Inspired by the run of Métis activist and athlete Tracie Leost to raise awareness about Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous women
Red Dress – Amanda Rheaume, feat. Chantal Kreviazuk
Through the Flood – Indian City
Blackbird – Emma Stevens (in Mi’kmaq)
You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind) – Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq
Pray Sister Pray – Crystal Shawanda
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights
22 April 2023
Walking. Germantown. Earth Day.
Parkinson’s Unity Walk.
Walking. Germantown.
I Need to Wake Up – Melissa Etheridge
Last Lonely Eagle – New Riders of the Purple Sage
Gardner – Rebecca Riots
Earth and Sun – Sharon Burch
Dragonfly – Ziggy Marley
Almost Like Praying – Lin-Manuel Miranda, feat. Artists for Puerto Rico
Wildlife – Nomad
Now That the Buffalo’s Gone – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Wind Spirit – Bill Miller
Care for the Land – Eric Bogle
After the Gold Rush – Neil Young
Solstice Prayer – R. Carlos Nakai
Hawai’i ’78 – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) – Fats Domino
The Sky and the Dawn and the Son – Celtic Woman
The Four Legged Ones – Joanne Shenandoah
The Times The Are A-Changin’ – Keb’ Mo’
Whole World – Bobby McFerrin & Esperanza Spalding
Earth Children – Walela
New World Water – Mos Def
Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
Globe All Warming – Niyorah
Shimmer, Prayer for Cleaning the Water – Joy Harjo
Water Is Life – Wanita Bird
Whose Garden Was This – Tom Paxton
Mother Earth, Our Mother Birthing – Jim & Jean Strathdee
Where Do the Children Play – Cat Stevens
Earth – John McCutcheon
Earth – Lil Dicky
Earth Song – Mary Hopkin
To My Old Brown Earth – Pat Humphries
Mother Nature’s Son – The Beatles
To the Last Whale – Crosby & Nash
Don’t Go Near the Water – Johnny Cash
Go to the Woods – Dar Williams
Happy Earth Day – Meredythe & The Recycle! Kids
Earth Day Every Day – John Denver
Nothing (But) Flowers – Talking Heads
The 3 R’s – Jack Johnson
Hard Day on the Planet – Loudon Wainwright III
The Landscape Is Changing – Depeche Mode
Wake Up America – Miley Cyrus
Rejoice in the Sun – Peter Schickele & Joan Baez
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Mercy Mercy Me – Marvin Gaye
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – Leon Russell
Sun Is Shining – Bob Marley
Before the Deluge – Jackson Browne
Is This the World We Created – Queen
Big Beautiful Planet – Raffi
The Riverkeeper – Tom Chapin
Rainbow Connection – Willie Nelson
Love Song to the Earth – Paul McCartney, Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Fergie, Colbie Caillat, Natasha Bedingfield, Sean Paul, Leona Lewis, John Rzeznik, Angelique Kidjo, Krewella, Kelsea Ballerini, Nicole Scherzinger, Christina Grimmie, Victoria Justice & Q’orianka Kilcher
Oh, What a World 2.0 – Kacey Musgraves
Played sons through the day. Did not walk this long.
Filed under Current Events, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Every day is Earth Day
Perhaps this is late. Today is Earth Day and tomorrow is Earth Day Sunday. Perhaps this should have been sent sooner to allow people who plan worship to make use of the resources that follow the brief prayer. However, if your worship tomorrow does not include a focus on Earth Day, you could use some of these resources in your devotions. And, as my friend Melodee Bottari posted on her Facebook page – “Every day is Earth Day.”
A prayer for Earth Day
Creator God,
we come from the earth,
and we return to the earth.
In between, we live upon the earth.
within the great, wonderful web of life
you have created.
May we live wisely,
caring responsibly and well
for the earth
of which we are a part
upon which we depend
and which you hold in infinite love.
We pray in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
This list of worship resources and action ideas for Earth Day and earth care is adapted from material curated by my friend Bruce Winfrey Gillette for Presbyterians for Earth Care (PEC); joining PEC might be a good Earth Day activity
CREATION CARE IN GLORY TO GOD HYMNAL BY DAVID GAMBRELL
HYMNS BY CAROLYN WINFREY GILLETTE (PERMISSION IS GIVEN FOR FREE USE TO PEC FRIENDS)
THE LORD’S PRAYER LITURGY AND INFORMATION ABOUT CREATION CARE FROM THE PRESBYTERIAN HUNGER PROGRAM (PHP)
EARTH DAT SUNDAY WORSHIP RESOURCES AND MORE(PHP)
TREAD LIGHTLY – EARTH CARE ACTIVITIES TO USE ANY TIME (PHP)
RESPONDINGTO CLIMATE CHANGE FREE CONVERSATION GUIDE (CHRISTIAN CENTURY)
Filed under Current Events, Friends, Prayer
Stop the Execution of Louis Gaskin
On Wednesday of this week, three days after Easter, Louis Gaskin is set to be executed in Florida. Killing Mr. Gaskin will not undo his crime. All efforts are being made to get the courts to stop the execution, but as always, we must work and hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Read more about the case and sign the petition, here.
Filed under Capital Punishment, Current Events, Death Penalty
31 March 2023 – Love Rising
Playlist based on the Love Rising concert in Nashville. Thanks to Laura and Jess for helping me find Ann Powers’ Spotify playlist which served as the basis for this list.
You’re Not Alone – Allison Russell, feat. Brandie Carlile
The Village – Wrabel
Hard to Make a Stand – Sheryl Crow
Going to Hell – Adeem the Artist
Burn This Statehouse Down – Mya Byrne & Paisley Fields, feat. Kym Register + Meltdown Rodeo, Swan Real, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Chris Kelly, Sandy Loam & Scott Wolfson and Other Heroes
History Repeats – Brittany Howard
Faith Healer – Julien Baker
We’re All Gonna Die – Joy Oladokun & Noah Kahan
The Middle – Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey
Pluto – John Wesley Rogers
Hold On – Yola & The Highwomen, feat. Sheryl Crow, Brandi Carlile & Natalie Hembey
Let Me Be – Fancy Hagood & Devon Gilfillian
Nina Cried Power, feat. Mavis Staples
What’ve I Done to Help – Jason Isabell and the 400 Unit
All of This Beauty – Izzy Heltai
Inordinary – Haley Wiukuans
Take It Like a Man – Amanda Shires
I Got My Head Made Up – Instant Funk
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
I Am America – Shea Diamond
Queen for Tonight – Asia O’Hara
On a Sunday – Autumn Nicholas
Bible Belt – Chris Housman
Welcome to Chambers County – Brady Riley
Dying on the Vine – Harper Grae
Stand in the Light – Brody Ray
Taxiderny – Jeff Holden
Maybe Possibly – Ally Free
Sober – Carmen – Carmen Dianne
Swamp Witch – She Returns from War
Under the Milky Way – Lilly Hiatt
blood – Kaitlin Butts
Last Night Was Good for My Soul – The Shindellas
Hard Life – Aaron Lee Tasjan
Loving Her – Katie Pruitt
Catch This Love – Mila Jam
Drag Queens in Limousines – Mary Gauthier
Better Than We Found It – Maren Morris
For Judas – Adeem the Artist
Take Me to Church – Hozier
Cover Me Up – Jason Isbell
Filed under Current Events, Human Rights, Music, playlist
Along the Graybeard Trail 