Innate talent. Divine inspiration. And one heaping helping of soul. These are the main ingredients of Swedish singer and entertainer Paul Mac Innes. With his distinctive vocals and one-of-a-kind interpretive savvy, this artist brings new life to every song he sings.

At the core is Paul’s indisputable deep-rooted soul: One listen to his voice and there’s no denying that every note is coming from an authentic place that starts from the heart.

With global radio airplay and attention from DJs around the world (e.g. Gilles Peterson, Francois Kevorkian), he has also been profiled in Blues & Soul magazine, DJ mag and and more. Paul has been compared to Steely Dan, Bilal, Amp Fiddler and Curtis Mayfield… and even deemed a male reincarnation of Amy Winehouse.

Life long musician, singer and lover of sound. Instruments include piano/keyboards, accordion, basic audio production and hand percussion. Specialties in Christian worship music as well as folk and world music. Went to Dartington College of Arts to complete a BA Hons Music degree and Bretton hall to complete an MA in Contemporary Performing Arts specialising in Music and Sonic Art. Contributed to 1999 production of Carnival Messiah. Collaborated with Steve Hopton, Ali Bullivent and Sabrina Piggott. Accordionist and backing singer with The Durbervilles. Regular musician and worship leader in local church band

From January 2017 to December 2023, “The Word Is Resistance” was a weekly podcast from SURJ-Faith by white anti-racist Christians based on the Christian lectionary, offering an anti-racist Word for other white Christians -- though all are welcome to check it out.  We are pleased to keep this incredible resource alive here as an ongoing resource to help us all get free.

What do our sacred texts have to teach us about living, surviving, even thriving, in the context of empire, tyranny, violence, repression - the times in which we are living today?  What do they have to teach us, as white Christians, about our role in resistance, in showing up, in liberation?  They teach us this: 

Our traditions were made for these times.  They come from these times.  So we have resources in our texts, our practices, to help us right now.  We can reclaim our stories and re-tell them to nourish our resistance against white supremacy and our work for collective liberation.

Mattias Welin -
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