Messianic Folklore

Feb 11 2025 7 ep. 13 mins 3

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Theological reflection and immersive sound art by musician, poet and writer David Benjamin Blower, on sacred text, embodied life and radical imagination.

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KOINE CHANTS: XAIRETE!

Feb 11 2025 2 mins

They say that joy is an act of resistance. Although it's often cheaply said, I think it’s true. I think it's also an act of creative energy: a way of forming another world around its tenacious possibility. It becomes, in embryonic form, a reality held in the joy itself. It is an act of participation in what the early messianics called καινὴ κτίσις—new creation.Since

Allness

Feb 18 2024 10 mins

Episode Three of the Messianic Folklore Podcast: a meditation on Everything.Please do join my crowd funder to replace my poor old computer so I can keep making these podcasts.To join my course on Paul’s letter to the Romans, sign up as a paid subscriber here on Substack, or on Patreon, where, in either case, you will find all manner of other behind-the-scenes treasures.Show Notes

Heaven & Nature Sing

Dec 19 2023 7 mins

Here is an old thing from times gone by. In the late noughties I was gigging my way around Birmingham’s small venues and the whole thing was very dissatisfying. These little shows felt like the first stop on a pre-marked road toward the capitalist myth of musical success. This was the myth of ‘making it.’ Everywhere we played, it felt like there was an unspoken agreement betw

MFP3: Medicine for Bad Power

Nov 19 2023 13 mins

Episode Three of the Messianic Folklore Podcast: a meditation on wilderness as medicine for power gone bad. This will the last podcast episode of 2023. I'll be spending December feasting and resting and gathering the embers. Thank you for listening and being part of the start of this little aural book of hours. Show Notes:—Daniel 3: the sentence of the watchers—A gentle sentenc

MFP2: Deep Time Messianism

Oct 11 2023 21 mins

Episode Two of the Messianic Folklore Podcast: a meditation on messianism as folk culture.Show Notes:—A poem—Utopian thinking vs. power—Isaiah 40—Folk Culture: re-embedding the human story—Waiting as revolutionary patience—Finger in the windThis podcast runs on listener support. You can help by joining on Patreon, or becoming a paid subscriber on Substack, where, in eit

MFP1: The Beginning & The End

Sep 10 2023 15 mins

Well now, here's the beginning of a new thing. Here is the first episode of the Messianic Folklore Podcast. These are short immersive pieces; theological reflections and sound collages, on sacred text, embodied life and radical imagination. These’ll be monthly, to begin with at least.This is a free podcast, sustained by listener support. If you'd like to help, please consider bec

Praying the Psalms in the Anthropocene

Aug 07 2023 23 mins

Greetings Dear Readers,Earlier this year I released a record of songs and readings called The Book of Bare Life & Returns: Praying the Psalms in the Anthropocene. It comes with the essay below printed in a booklet. Since I’m rather caught up in August behaviour, I’m putting it here. It was written last summer, and there are already things I would like to qualify or say more abo