"I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration, joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll."

Guest musicians Andy Demos (saxophone) and Jerry McAvoy (harmonicas) - along with Sara Hoey (piano and organ) and the Chancel Choir - will be with us for a very special worship service we're calling Good Friday Blues. Blues music lends itself especially well to Good Friday lament. The blues tunes and spirituals we'll sing (and the anthems we'll hear, sung by the Chancel Choir) will bring us to a new awareness of the depth of God's caring for the human race, and how we can see love shining even in the darkness.