A Different Drummer
Saturday, November 7, 2009

From every common bush: a sermon on Exodus 3:3-4

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There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush. When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to see, God called ...

Oumou Sangare, Malian Wassoulou singer and social activist

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I recently finished this scratchboard of Oumou Sangare for my series of drawing entitled M.U.S.I.C. Musicians Undermining Social Injustice C...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

This Is It, Michael Jackson

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Went to see "This Is It," the documentary on Michael Jackson's rehearsals for his final tour before his death. The movie gave ...

Mennonite Weekly Review receives second place Award of Merit from Associated Church Press for my article "When is a peace church..."

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This morning I got a call from a member of a small Menonite congregation I attend here in Portland to give me songs to play this coming Sund...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

In memory of my loving mother, Leona Hartshorn (1914-1999)

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Here are the flowers crying in red Here is the coffin a cold, cold bed Here is the grave dug deep in the earth Here is the preacher who prom...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Laurie Liption, graphite artist of the dead

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No bones about it, I like skulls and skeletons. There is a Celtic Skull on my desk as I write this. A nearby book has a skull bookmarker. Th...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Baptism: a poem by Leo Hartshorn

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white cranes cut the silent sky a crowd of robes huddle on the shore the water laughs as it hits the rocks thin reeds dance in the Jordan br...

Chuck D and Public Enemy

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Finished a new drawing in my series of drawings M.U.S.I.C.: Musicians Undermining Social Injustice Creatively.
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Leo Hartshorn
Portland, OR, United States
I grew up just north of Malibu, California, in Oxnard. I have been a musician and artist since the 60's. I entered Christian ministry in 1973 as a Southern Baptist and became a minister among the Mennonites in 1987 through the influence a baptist theologian friend, Dr. James Wm. McClendon, Jr. I would consider myself more of an neo-Anabaptist than a Mennonite. I have been a Christian minister for 40 years. 10 years in youth and education and 30 years in pastoral ministry in congregations in California, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Oregon. For 7 years I was Minister of Peace and Justice for Mennonite Church USA and staff for the Peace and Justice Support Network. I received my doctorate with a focus on Anabaptist preaching from Lancaster Theological Seminary (See dissertation below)). I currently live in Portland, Oregon. I just completed an interim pastorate of Zion Mennonite Church, Hubbard, Oregon. My sermons at Zion can be heard at: http://zion.or.us.mennonite.net/Home/WorshipServices. I am retired and spend most of my time now doing artwork and playing in a local band, Blues Battalion.
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