by Fr. Dr. Claude J. Perera, omi
Our common knowledge about Jesus belonging to the rural peasantry in Galilee has been challenged by recent archaeological discoveries done in an ancient town, Sepphoris by name. At the very outset, we got to clarify the term ‘Peasant.’ The Cambridge English Dictionary has two definitions to the word ‘Peasant.’
1. “a person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops, keeps animals etc. on it, especially one who has a low income, very little education, and a low social position. This is usually used of someone who lived in the past or of someone in a poor country”:
OK Computer
A meditation on decay and rebirth, faith and fear, growth and acceptance
Welcome to Conceptual Beach is the latest offering from L.A. post-rockers Young Jesus. Described as the long-time mental refuge of vocalist/guitarist
John Rossiter,
Conceptual Beach is a fictional in-between place for “knowing and unknowing” (a great contender for 2020’s official tagline), and the album it inspired is composed of complex psychological musings evolved from a lifetime of contemplation.
Conceptual Beach borrows from a mixed bag of genres, culminating in an improvisational masterpiece. Soaring brass makes an appearance on “Pattern Doubt;” “Meditations” begins with airy flutes that compliment the track’s astro-jazz beat; rain-soaked melancholy transforms into playful keys on “Lark,” then transforms again into a twangy, math-y jam, an amalgamation of moving parts that shouldn’t sound cohesive together but somehow do. The last two tracks eek past the 10-minute