By: Brian McLaren

Stay tuned for an exciting project I'm working on with some amazing friends … launching a new generation of progressive Christian worship music - songs of praise and protest, joy and lament, contemplation and motivation.

But for inspiration, let's look back at arguably the most deeply Christian music in American history, the negro spiritual. Here's an amazing interview. And here's an inspiring song:
Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel

Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel, why not everyone?

Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel

Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel, why not everyone?

He delivered Daniel from the lion's den

Jonah from the belly of the whale

The Hebrew children from the fiery furnace

Why not everyone?

Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel

Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel, why not everyone?

The moon runs down in a purple stream

The sun refuse to shine

Every star shall disappear

But Jesus shall be mine.

Oh, didn't my Lord deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel

Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel, why not everyone?

Why not everyone?

Why not everyone?