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  • Text: ...For if we don't know the love of God in the other, we'll know not the love of God at all. In my favorite Broadway musical, "Les Miserables," Cozette sings to the dying Jean Valjean, "To love another person is to see the face of God." © Grand Valley State Univ...
Mary: Mother of God or Jewish Mother?

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  • Text: ...iption of the spoken sermon The year was 1970, and the song by Tim Rice, "I Don't Know How to Love Him," with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, was recorded. In 1971, Broadway was rocking with Jesus Christ Superstar, the rock opera whose centerpiece was perhaps that marvelous sol...
Endless Love

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  • Text: ... years ago, Jesus, would you believe it? They tell us it's not like an explosion of TNT, but rather, the explosion of a musical chord, perhaps the most famous chord in all the world, Beethoven's Fifth. You know how it begins. It's "Boom, boom, boom, boom." That'...
Spirit, Spirit: A Cosmic Drama

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  • Text: ...He must realize that, like a gypsy, he lives in the boundary of an alien world, a world that is deaf to his music and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his suffering and to his crimes." Wow! And Erich Fromm writes in Man For Himself. "There is only one solution to his proble...
God and History: What's Happening?

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  • Text: ...aces to embrace the one who finally comes to his senses. That is why the story ends with a marvelous party. The fatted calf. Music and dancing. Celebration. That is what worship ought to be – a great party. Once again, how we have mutilated the whole matter. There is a discipline of worsh...
I Can't Believe the Love I've Found

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  • Text: ...celebrated with gratitude the retirement of John Gregory Bryson from his teaching in the public schools. We know him for his music, but generations of students know him for his geography. If you think he’s a taskmaster in front of the choir, you should have had him for geography. You see,...
Not Converted - Just Amazed By Grace

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  • Text: ...e biologist that I cited last week, Jacque Monaad, said we are aliens on the edge of a universe, which is indifferent to our music, to our hopes, to our suffering, to our crime. No one out there—nothing more. Hans Küng agreed that our human existence is ambivalent and impenetrable. Yet H...
The Hope That Heals The Human Hurt

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  • Text: ... that grace reaches you around the table of an AA meeting. Some of you might say simply to come into this place, to hear the music begin, to see the candles flicker, to have the table set. Some of you, simply feeling the body of the one next to you, reminding you that you are not alone and ...
Eucharist: A Means of Grace, A Sign of Presence

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  • Text: ...He became one of the world-renowned organists; he became one of the greatest scholars of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. This guy, before he was 30 now. Now listen to this out of his autobiography: Long ago in my student days I had thought about it. It struck me as inconceivable that I ...
Living With Intentionality

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  • Text: ...n case you missed the news, Michael Jackson is dead. I acknowledge some lack in myself but I could never get into him or his music. But I know it has to do with some deficiency; I never got into the Beatles either. In both cases it was I against the universe I guess. Certainly there is ...
Just Imagine...

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  • Text: ...But there I was in my old home territory where my family still worships and I heard emotion in the musical expression, emotion in the “open mike” testimony and in the statements of the pastor, and I noted the frequent use of “we know, we know, we know.” I wanted to say, “You tell ...
When god dies...

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  • Text: ...Whoever you are, wherever you are coming from – returned on Easter from a long dropout, cynical in general, but find the music and flowers inviting, despairing, almost going under, hoping against hope, seeking, longing to believe – © Grand Valley State University God’s Love: A Yes...
God's Love: A "Yes" That Conquers Our "No"