Tag: Improvising Church

Truly Local: Church as the Soul of the City

Belonging means different things to different people. The church as the soul of the city becomes a personal homecoming, bustling into a bar, keyboard under my arm, for a jazz gig with local musicians.

Mark Glanville

Jazz by its nature as a traditioned, improvised, nuanced, intelligent, conversational art form, is an evocative metaphor for the church in post-Christendom.