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• Text: ...e there was a day when the Church was the womb of the arts, of magnificent architecture, the beautiful paintings, the lovely music that moves the soul—all of that comes out of the spiritual center that is elevated by the encounter with God. I look around today and see such a terrible loss...

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• Text: ...n thinking about a parallel in our own experience would be the song “We Shall Overcome." There is tremendous power in music, tremendous emotional power that unites and bonds human beings in a cause or a movement- and those songs, in Luke's © Grand Valley State University The...

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• Text: ...ligionist, a philosopher who concludes that we have to accept the fact that we are alone in the universe that is deaf to our music and as indifferent to our hope as to our crimes and our sufferings. Monod is a first-rate scientist, but when he becomes a religionist, he says, "No purpos...

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• Text: ...No! Instead, he emulated Jesus and went to Africa. He gave up promising careers in music and in theology and he became a doctor for people in Africa. Why? Because Jesus got to him, that Jesus who was the embodiment of God, by the Spirit of God, that same Spirit moving in a Schweitzer who sa...

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• Text: ...stmas way up on the other side of Thanksgiving. It was the 16th of November when Nancy and I went to Bethlehem at Radio City Music Hall. We've already been to Bethlehem! Fantastic, spectacular program, Rockettes and all. But, a Christmas show on November 16! How in the world do we ever...

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• Text: ...They did make one little sortie into the cultural field when they tried to give me music lessons, piano lessons. I sat there and I doodled, and I would go week after week and I made no progress and finally, thank God, the teacher was a Christian, who called my mother and said, "In good...

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• Text: ...scussion, controversy, and European culture had blossomed into the magnificent thing that it was, literally, culturally, its music, its art, its theological investigations, its great universities. And then, of course, as the 20th century dawned, the first decade of this century brought the ...

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• Text: ...Consequently it allows us to mine the deep riches of the Christian tradition – its themes, liturgy and music. But even beyond the rich traditional sources for worship, is the focus of the theme itself – this evening Pentecost and Trinity. The last time we gathered as a community of frie...

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• Text: ...Rhem Page 7   life-forming fashion through prayer, ritual and moral living. The story was celebrated in music and sacred dance and worship. And, as Karen Armstrong has claimed, at the heart of all the great religions is the call to compassion. Understanding the nature and function of r...

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• Text: ...t of believing certain ‘truths’ or creedal propositions but disciplined practice. She points to the musician lost in her music or the dancer inseparable from the dance – a satisfaction, she contends, that goes deeper than merely ‘feeling good.’ It can lead to ‘ekstasis’ – a ...

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• Text: ... God at its highest and best is the full-spectrum pageant in which is utilized the arts which appeal to the aesthetic sense: music that moves one in the depths; movement that expresses what leaves the tongue dumb; color and symbol creating a feast for the eye; the word of truth that engages...

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• Text: ...You celebrate it by - you come to church and you light candles and you listen to that beautiful, beautiful music, and you have a birthday party or you give a gift or you bake a cake and you gather your friends around and you hold hands, and you say, isn’t it wonderful, the gifts that are ...