Nehemiah Blake

restoring England’s Christian literary tradition

Are you prophetically illiterate?

The following are the words from the 17 score to Imagine:

Imagine waking up tomorrow morning

and all the music has disappeared.

…What is more you cannot even remember

what music sounded like or how it was made.

You can only remember that it had existed and that it

had been important to you and your civilisation.

And you long to hear it once more.

Then imagine people coming together to make music

with nothing but their voices, and with no knowledge of

what music should sound like.

For Bill Drummond, this leap of the imagination leads into his project The 17. But it is still an act of the imagination.  For Nehemiah & Blake, this state already exists in many people with regards to spiritual literacy in the prophetic voice of the Bible.  To paraphrase The 17,

You wake up each morning

to a world in which the prophetic word has disappeared.

…What is more, you cannot even remember

what the prophetic world sounded like or how it was uttered.

You can only remember that it had existed and that it

had been important to you and you civilisation.

The question is, do you long to hear it once more?

What Nehemiah & Blake desires to achieve is to bring together writers like you who can answer yes to the question above. And despite your having no knowledge of what the prophetic voice sounds like, to come together and learn to hear and write that word together.

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