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Mumford and Sons: Eschatological Banjos

Posted June 12, 2013 @ 12:43am | by Tripp

Aweek ago I posted about Mumford and Sons. I suggested that the Wednesday concert was, for me, a festival of devotion. Friday's concert, however, was something else. It was an eschatological...

 

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Unpacking Community

Posted June 11, 2013 @ 10:34am | by Tripp

That's a really wonderful title for blog post, "Unpacking Community." It's a shame that this post is just about unpacking moving boxes. Hi there. It's been a little while...

 

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Here We Go Again

Posted June 7, 2013 @ 1:27am | by Tripp

Hey. So, it is late. I should be in bed. Instead, I am sitting up watching a little television and wishing these boxes would pack themselves. I'll pack one or two more before I go to bed....

 

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Happy Birthday to Uncle Walt!

Posted May 31, 2013 @ 6:50am | by Tripp

I Hear America Singing by Walt Witman (1819-1892) I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and...

 

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Mumford and Sons: A Festival of Devotion

Posted May 30, 2013 @ 1:30pm | by Tripp

Vocal Music is an Art of expressing rightly things by Voice, for the sweet moving of affections and the mind...Singing...directeth the understanding...The end effect of it is, a sweet moving of...

 

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Tags: Mumford and Sons, Charles Taylor, devotion, rock, spirituality, spiritual-but-not-religious
 

Purgation.

Posted May 22, 2013 @ 12:04pm | by Tripp

Seven whole days, not one in seven, I will praise Thee; In my heart, though not in heaven, I can raise Thee. Small it is, in this poor sort to enroll Thee; E'en eternity's too short...

 

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Tags: Fun., Purgation., thesis, music, aesthetics, liturgy, poetics, sacramentality, catholicity, Baptist
 
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