Posts by James Ross Kelly

James Ross Kelly lives in Northern California next to the Sacramento River. Mr. Kelly was a long-time resident of Southern Oregon where he grew up. And the Fires We Talked About published by Uncollected Press in 2020 is Mr. Kelly’s first book of fiction. In 2024 Mr. Kelly published his third book, "Above Neil Rock," a memoir.

March 19, 2019March 19, 2019 by James Ross Kelly

Sergej Rachmaninov – Vespers (All-Night Vigil), for alto, tenor & chorus, Op. 37 – YouTube

Sergej Rachmaninov – Vespers

Vespers is a sunset evening prayer service in the Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran liturgies of the canonical hours. The word comes from the Greek ἑσπέρα and the Latin vesper, meaning “evening”. It is also referred to in the Anglican tradition as evening prayer or evensong. Wikipedia

The All-Night Vigil (Pre-reform Russian: Всенощное бдѣніе, Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye; Modern Russian: Всенощное бдение) is an a cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, his Op. 37, premiered on 23 March 1915 in Moscow.

0:00 Come, Let Us Worship 2:36 Bless the Lord, O My Soul 8:00 Blessed is the Man 12:23 Gladsome Light 16:30 Lord, Now Lettest Thou 20:39 Rejoice, O Virgin 23:51 The Six Psalms 27:12 Praise the Name of the Lord 29:53 Blessed Art Thou, O Lord 36:40 Having Beheld the Resurrection 40:44 My Soul Magnifies the Lord 51:32 The Great Doxology 59:07 Today Salvation 1:01:20 Thou Didst Rise 1:05:39 To Thee, the Victorious Leader Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

March 19, 2019 by James Ross Kelly

The Coptic Orthodox Divine Liturgy in English Complete – YouTube

The Coptic Orthodox Divine Liturgy in English Complete

March 19, 2019 by James Ross Kelly

An Overview of the Orthodox Divine Liturgy – YouTube

March 19, 2019March 19, 2019 by James Ross Kelly

This Mysterious Maker of the World–C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

The Gospels declare that this mysterious maker of the world has visited his world in person. The most that any religious prophet has said was that he was the true servant of such a being. But the creator was present in the daily life of the Roman Empire–that is something unlike anything else in nature. It is the one great startling statement that man has made since he spoke his first articulate word. It makes dust and nonsense of comparative religion. C.S. Lewis

March 18, 2019 by James Ross Kelly

Dick Dale – Esperanza (Live on KEXP) – YouTube–RIP Dick Dale..

March 18, 2019 by James Ross Kelly

The American Evangelical Right has shown its real need is reformation–James Kelly

St. John One: One

Christianity and her Church has been my moral center for most of my life. The past two years have shocked my sensibility as I’ve seen friends of mine, Christians, support Donald Trump.

While I’ve been Pro-life and Supported pro-Israel policy for 40 years, racism has been to my mind–ungodly. Sadly, as Trump supporters continue to bolster their President and often from an evangelical perspective that is patently wrong, their true colors seem to shine through. And there seems to be no color of the loving kindness of the Jesus I worship–whose love knows no skin color, or tribe, or race.

I am a left leaning Christian, in the manner of St. Francis I suppose, and perhaps I always have been. Recently a prophetic dream confirmed this. This blog will largely support a notion of Christianity that reflects Matthew 25: 31:46. I believe it always has.

Now, I believe the Evangelical…

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March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 by James Ross Kelly

Adam Serwer: White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots — The Atlantic

The seed of Nazism’s ultimate objective—the preservation of a pure white race, uncontaminated by foreign blood—was in fact sown with striking success in the United States. What is judged extremist today was once the consensus of a powerful cadre of the American elite, well-connected men who eagerly seized on a false doctrine of “race suicide” during the immigration scare of the early 20th century. They included wealthy patricians, intellectuals, lawmakers, even several presidents. Perhaps the most important among them was a blue blood with a very impressive mustache, Madison Grant. He was the author of a 1916 book called The Passing of the Great Race, which spread the doctrine of race purity all over the globe.

A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it

Source: Adam Serwer: White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots – The Atlantic