Music, Creativity & Justice with Ruth Naomi Floyd

How should we think about work within, and live faithfully within a world that was called and created to be good and beautiful, and yet everywhere is marred by ugliness and injustice? 

Jazz vocalist and composer Ruth Naomi Floyd joins our podcast to discuss the intersection of music, creativity, and justice, and to help us think deeply about our role in repairing, re-envisioning, and creating new places of beauty, justice, and flourishing:

We hope you enjoy and are encouraged by Floyd’s artistic journey, how she finds beauty in the midst of suffering, and her vision for the role of love in creativity.

This podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in 2021. Watch the full video of the conversation here, and learn more about Ruth Naomi Floyd.

Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

The Frederick Douglass Jazz Works

It Was Good, Making Music to the Glory of God, by Ruth Naomi Floyd

The Problem of Good, by Ruth Naomi Floyd

Dr. John Nunez

Toni Morrison

Martin Luther King Jr.

Vincent van Gogh

Hans Christian Andersen

Miles Davis

Francis Schaeffer

Joshua Stamper

Related Trinity Forum Readings:

A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Letters from Vincent van Gogh

Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King Jr.

Revelation, by Flannery O'Connor, 

Bulletins from Immortality, by Emily Dickinson.

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