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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 ...

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• Text: ...celebrations – experiences of a worshipping community in which one is “moved”. Our right brains are shaped by symbols, music, movement and sensory data. And here is the problem for especially the Protestant tradition in which I was nurtured – the tradition of Schleiermacher/Feu...

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• Text: ...lives generally or what we expect from our doctors when our health fails. And so, I see congregations growing through praise music and worship as entertainment. I see Pentecostalism growing through the provision of deeply emotional experience. And I realize that there is a slim minority who...

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• Text: ...In Fiddler on the Roof Tevye booms out the word claiming that life is as precarious as a fiddler making music on a perilously steep roof and that balance is maintained by tradition. According supremacy to tradition over Scripture in the Roman Catholic Church allowed it to drift from testing...

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• Text: ...an you, the Ground of Being, experienced through story and symbol – through posture, gesture, vesture, through liturgy and music. I don’t mean to be boastful when I say it takes a great deal of maturity to sense in all of that that one is absolutely safe. It has taken me a lifetime of s...

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• Text: ...oly Spirit was a lively celebration – the liturgical color was red and the people were encouraged to wear red apparel. The music was celebratory, often there were liturgical dancers and the whole service was upbeat. It was the culmination of the Christian year – a six-month remembering ...

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• Text: ...It seems so natural to see you gathered before me with all the trimmings of the season, all the beautiful music, the evident warmth and joy of being with folks with whom there is such marvelous shared history and experience. Quite wonderful indeed! For me, preparing for such an event has it...

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• Text: ...k God, once defined, the dogma of the Trinity did not preclude experience, and with religious practice – liturgy, prayers, music, sacramental observance – God still was alive in the lives of God’s people. I have used the dogma of the Trinity on this Trinity Sunday to show the danger a...

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• Text: ...This future speaks even now in a hundred signs, this destiny announces itself everywhere; for the music of the future all ears are cocked even now. For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to d...

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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 ...