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Solos and Echoes

| Sound Theology | 1 comment

  Bach’s Unaccompanied Cello Suites  — I hear a swoon even at the mention of the work – is a series of six suites, each with six movements, for solo cello. One musician. One instrument. One performance space. Manifold echoes. A significant part of Bach’s...
ME and WE

ME and WE

| Open Table | 2 comments

ME and WE God’s New Social Gospel by Leonard Sweet ME and WE: God’s New Social Gospel by Leonard Sweet is a lively and lovely introduction to a re-imagined, metaphorically rich present/future church. This church, Sweet writes, must learn how to face three of the...

House of Burgesses

| The Commons

One wonders what was the back-story behind this legislation published in 1631 by the Virginia House of Burgesses: “Ministers shall not give themselves to excess in drinking or riot, spending their time idly by day or night, playing at dice, cards or any other unlawful...

Walking With Joy

| The Commons

“Walking now with joy and not with fear, in a clear, steady sight of things eternal, we shall look on pleasure, wealth, praise, all things of earth, as bubbles upon the water, counting nothing important, nothing desirable, nothing worth a deliberate thought, but only...