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This week we celebrate the release of our newest compilation, “The Best So Far: Odessa Settles.”

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Join us this week for some most outstanding clips from recent compilations, featuring Brother Preacher and Odessa Settles. So, we hope you enjoy Brother Preacher’s reflections on forgetfulness, revivals, scholastic audiences, and “singing off the wall in church” along with excerpts from Odessa’s renditions of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and “Oh Freedom.” Both Odessa Settles’ CD and Brother Preachers’ CD are available in our store.

And a bit of more immediate news: We’re excited to announce that once again, we’ll be streaming tonight’s show live online. You’ll be able to listen by clicking here at 7:30 on May 16.

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Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

What hath Tokens host Lee Camp to do with a convertible sports car? And what hath Malibu to do with the Book of Revelation? Find out on this week’s episode of Dispatches.

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This week, we hear a report from Lee as he spends time in Southern California, talking about his lectures on “War in the Book of Revelation.” In addition to this report, you can hear the entirety of both of this lectures by clicking the following links: part 1 and part 2.

After Lee’s extended 7-minute lecture on Revelation, war, and empire, we close out with Marcus Hummon’s “Rosana”—a lament song about a victim of empire.

As always, we thank you for joining us on Dispatches and hope you enjoy the following photos from Lee’s podcast recording session.

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Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

More segments today from our Tokens episode entitled “Stories We Live By.”

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This week we start with a trio—Lee C. Camp, Buddy Greene, and Sandra McCracken—singing “This Is My Father’s World,” followed by a monologue from Lee featuring the old hymn “There is a Habitation.” And we close with “Climbing Jacob’s Ladder.”

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Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

More segments today from our Tokens episode entitled “Stories We Live By,” featuring an interview with Barbara Brown Taylor, followed by Buddy Green’s song, “The Green Tree,” and a very special Class and Grass segment.

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Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

Last week we took a break due to some unexpected opportunity to produce a show on short notice for some folks here in Nashville, so we had our nose to the grind-stone having a Most Outstanding time here in Music City. 

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This week we return to segments from our “Stories We Live By Show,” featuring two performances by our friend Sandra McCracken, and one of the early screeds from Brother Preacher, when he first addressed an auditorium full of Ph.D.’s.  Ah, a delightful evening.

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Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

More segments today from our Tokens episode entitled “Stories We Live By,” with an interview with Professor Hubert Locke, followed by a moving performance by Psalom, an ensemble from Russia, performing a rendition of a lament psalm, entitled “They Cry Out to the Lord.”

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Remember we are in the closing days of our Kickstarter campaign for an album of Odessa Settles finest performances;  we hope that you will partner with us and claim your reward today.  See TokensShow.com/Odessa for more information.

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Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

For Holy Week, we will take a quick detour from sharing segments from our Stories We Live By show, and instead share a few of the beautiful old hymns we’ve done on the show.

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Well we had a wonderful time in Abilene, remembering those many long days in the library; good to wander amongst the mesquite trees and the pecans.  We’re now headed east toward music city.

I realized that this next episode will be released Holy Week, so I will take a quick detour from sharing segments from our Stories We Live By show, and instead thought I’d share a few of the beautiful old hymns we’ve done on the show.  I grew up in a church that sang a cappella, and I was, as it were, toothed on the old hymns, and I still love them.  There is a bit too much tendency toward sentimental and individualistic consumerism in much of the so-called contemporary praise music for my probably too-elitist, too-rationalistic way.  Anyway, I digress.

We close out this podcast episode with a sort of Good Friday hymn, performed by Buddy Greene, with Sonya Isaacs and Vince Gill and myself doing a bit of BGV. Prior to that is Odessa Settles singing that moving old spiritual, “We’re You There When They Crucified My Lord.” And finally we begin with an instrumental version of “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” with a solo performance by our friend and regular Aubrey Haynie.  Aubrey is such a fine guy, one of the very best in the business with all sorts of Academy of Country Music awards; I wish you could have seen him do this performance, because it’s one you have to see to make sense of.  He used a bow he had broken, so that the bow itself is behind the fiddle, with the bow strings in front, of course, but moving across all four of the strings on the fiddle at once, instead of the normal one or two.

I love all of these songs.  The performance of “There is a Fountain Filled with Blood” always brings back special memories, as I was still very new to the world of producing shows:  we had not had sufficient time to rehearse this song during the rehearsal, so at intermission we were back stage working through some harmonies with Buddy Greene and Sonya Isaacs, and we decided it was so pretty a cappella that we would do it without the band.  Meanwhile as we went out to the stage for part two, Vince Gill volunteered to join us on back-ground vocals and assured me that he would get it on the fly in the show, and I decided that since he had been inducted recently into the Country Music Hall of Fame, that I would allow it.  And meanwhile, so pleased was I with myself that I would get to sing harmonies with Vince Gill, I forgot to tell Jeff Taylor we were going to do it a cappella.  So, when it came time for this song in the show, before we knew it, Jeff started blowing the melody on his penny whistles; Buddy decided he would play along on guitar; and then the whole band wandered in at beautiful and poignant places, and it was a delightful, unrehearsed bit of beauty.

Enjoy.

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Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

Lee C. Camp and family on the road, somewhere between Fort Worth and Abilene, send greetings; wandering towards Abilene, where Lee spent many hours in the library, got him thinking about scholars, which got him thinking about the first show Tokens show done in conjunction with the Christian Scholars Conference some years ago.

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So: Lee C. Camp’s opening monologue that night on Alasdair MacIntyre, story, and identity; plus the first Scholars Stand-up; closing out with Aubrey Haynie and Ron Block doing an old fiddle tune, Turkey in the Straw.

Don’t forget to check out our Kickstarter Campaign for a new Tokens CD, “The Best So Far: Odessa Settles.”

Be sure to let all your friends know about our socio-cultural experiment here. Remember, you can subscribe to Dispatches from the Buckle on ITUNES. And be sure to follow DISPATCHES ON TWITTER for all the latest.

Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

Another Most Outstanding Episode from Dispatches, pondering the perennial question of “what’s wrong with kids these days?” And yet more: “Has your ‘inner teacher’ sabotaged your creative potential?” Where else will you explore the hypnagogic state than right here, on the soon-to-be-award-winning podcast from the Tokens Show?

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In this interview, renowned psychologist and behavioral scientist Dr. Robert Epstein explores the causes of—and the cure for—teen turmoil (and it’s NOT what you think), the reason some of us aren’t very creative (and what we can do about it), and the tragic problem with enjoying other people’s creative expressions. He’s got a PhD from Harvard; he’s the former editor of Psychology Today; and—in the expected role of Tokens in breaking down false dichotomies—Epstein authored the only book known to have front cover endorsements from both Newt Gingrich and Deepak Chopra.

Check out these books from Dr. Epstein: Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence and The Big Book of Creativity Games: Quick, Fun Activities for Jumpstarting Innovation.

Special thanks to our friend David Rubio for conducting this special interview.

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Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?

This week we feature the last of our segments from the Tokens episode entitled “On Not Taking Yourself Too Darn Seriously.”

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We hope you enjoy more Most Outstanding songs by Antsy McClain, a Most Outstanding closing monologue by the Tokens host, and that night’s show closer, the classic piece of Americana entitled “Keep on the Sunny Side.”

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Lee C. Camp, Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, is the host of WWW.TOKENSSHOW.COM and the Dispatches from the Buckle Podcast, and the author of WHO IS MY ENEMY?