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• Text: to beckon us into ever-wider vistas and everricher experience? We as a community have 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

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• Text: 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 you

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• Text: University From Feast to Fast: Honoring the Human Richard A. Rhem Page 2 This morning we have a taste of it with some foot-tapping music and there are Paczkis, and you're invited to indulge to your heart's content, but in the real celebration of Mardi

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• Text: understandable, because Jesus is the one who was raised from the dead, and so our liturgy, the music, the anthems - all of it is very much focused on the risen Lord. That's understandable. But, I want to say to you this morning that Easter is not so much a matter

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• Text: is also an atheist, was approaching his death, he had said, "No priest, no music, no ritual." They grew up, of course, in that grand Anglican tradition where the liturgy sort of permeates the air and his father, obviously, was a very deliberate atheist who

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• Text: a Minister of Music and a large organ - all of the accouterments that make it such a pleasure to be a part of this community. And it can become a real drain and a drag. And it can ring the zest out of your spiritual life. In the Utne Reader, in this same