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This one right here made my heart pitter. If I had any talent whatsoever for playing jazz, I most definitely would have become a professional saxophonist. Good thing these writing gigs keep panning out.
With that, here’s a survey of the jazz landscape in Augusta, leading up to a popular smooth jazz fest in the city.

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Annette M. Drowlette/Staff
Man’s illness provides direction
Brain disease leads to focus on Christ
By Kelly Jasper | Staff Writer
Saturday, August 15, 2009
This much he remembers. His name is Kevin Smiley. He and his wife, Debbie, worship at West Acres Baptist Church in Evans. He drove to services there a few Sundays ago.
That’s where his memory fails.
“People would [...]

Art, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. So, it seems, is God.
When we asked kids at Vacation Bible Schools this week to draw us pictures of the Almighty, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Could we really get any meaningful depictions of God that would translate into newsprint?
It turns out, yes, we [...]

From Monday’s The Augusta Chronicle … 
“One Sunday a year the Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta celebrates its members’ birthdays.
They cut 12 cakes, one for each month of birthdays, and invite people of all ages to sit and eat. This year the festivities included one 200-year-old with a Unitarian background: Charles Darwin.
The Darwin Day celebration is [...]

Terrible, terrible things are happening.
Someone somewhere got the idea that my face belonged on The Augusta Chronicle’s new faith blog, Amen Corner.
Well enough I suppose. I’ve enjoyed the conversation that has resulted. The best feedback so far seems to be from the behind-the-scenes type coverage I’ve posted. Things like our complete interview with tobyMac before his [...]