Tag: spirit
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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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Exegetical Exercise – John 3 1-16
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, April 9, is John 3:1-16. This is another very familiar text for lots of people, and I don’t have a whole lot to add by way of exegetical notes. First reading – I wonder whether Jesus and Nicodemus know each other at all, or have ever met before; and…
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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
What does it mean, precisely, to be “spiritual but not religious”? Presumably, generally, something relating to the social reality, or maybe more properly the institutional reality, of something that can be called “religion.” But I have been consistently confused about the “spiritual” part of this phrase. What does that word mean? It probably hinges on…
Matters of Interpretation 