I Speak Jesus

Chinese pop singer Ha Hui's (哈辉) beautiful self-produced disc, Hymn: If I speak in the tongues of angels (我若能说天使的话语) has the distinction of being one of the very few Chinese-language recordings of contemporary Christian songs. While Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) has a sizable market in South Korea, for various reasons, virtually no recordings have been released in China - despite a considerable Christian minority. For her recording she has selected a number of songs from one of the Chinese House Church hymnals as well as contributing several of her own originals. Altogether, this is a beautiful, inspiring disc of contemporary religious pop from a surprising source!

First, speaking to the readability of this book, I'd say compared to other works I have read, Le Donne writes in a way that is both easy for any regular reader and even entertaining at times. Not to speak ill of any other works on the same level as Dr. Le Donne, but I've personally found them to be difficult to read. Le Donne does a great job in relaying his ideas in a clear and concise manner to readers of any academic level.

Berlin, Deutschlandhalle, November 20 th 1971. Kinski emerges into a lone spotlight on an empty stage. Shoulder length hair, plain jeans, a shirt with flower and polka dot patterns. No set, no stage effects, no costume. By reciting his own version of the New Testament's “Jesus Christ Saviour”, he realizes a project well over 10 years in the making.
It is the time of the Hippie movement, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” is celebrating a sensational success in Germany as well. It is also a time of nonviolent resistance.
But Kinski's JESUS is not some Hippie Happening. It is to be a highly emotional, highly personal recount of “mankind's most exciting story: The Story of Jesus Christ…the freest and most modern of all men, who prefers to be massacred rather than fester alive with all the others. About a man who is the way we all would like to be. You and I”.