Tag: singing
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Feeling the Music
“Words make you think thoughts, music makes you feel a feeling, but a song makes you feel a thought.” Yip Harburg I didn’t learn that quotation at church. But I learned the truth of it at church. A hymn is a song. And it is probably fair to say that most of us churchgoers learn […]
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Music
The most remarkable thing that happened today didn’t happen at church, although it happened in a church. VOICES of Kentuckiana practices in the basement of Central Presbyterian Church. This Sunday the composer of one of the songs in the spring concert, Harry Pickens, came to rehearsal to listen to the progress we were making on […]
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Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
We were worn out yesterday, mostly in a good way. Our Holiday Bazaar, mostly an annual thing, was Saturday. It takes a lot of work: setting up the tables in the multi-purpose room, gathering up the things to sell and arranging them for display – even though we reduced this a lot this year by […]
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Sixth Sunday of Easter (& Holy Humor Sunday)
In class this morning, we investigated several of the themes of the texts of the day: providence, abundance, gratitude, participation (because the Israelites seemed to want to “have a hand in” the building of the Tabernacle, and there’s something about wanting to be part of something great that does seem to motivate generosity – and […]
Matters of Interpretation 