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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
 

Time, Eschatology, and Devotion

Posted April 11, 2013 @ 4:49pm | by Tripp

Underneath all the texts, all the sacred psalms and canticles, these watery varieties of sounds and silences, terrifying, mysterious, whirling and sometimes gestating and gentle must somehow be...

 

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Chrysostom's Easter Homily

Posted March 31, 2013 @ 12:00am | by Tripp

From St. John Chrysostom...the man was having a good day when he offered this one. It's a custom in many Orthodox congregations to read this homily at the Great Vigil. So...here you...

 

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Fr. Richard Rohr Is Lutheran?

Posted March 1, 2013 @ 5:20am | by Tripp

I'm having a little fun at Fr. Rohr's expense... If it wasn't clear before, let me be clear now. Most of my questions about liturgical theology are contemporary ones. With the...

 

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Tags: Richard Rohr, mysticism, Luther, everything old is new again, Vajta, Aune, liturgical theology
 

Thinking About Last Weekend

Posted February 23, 2013 @ 10:08pm | by Tripp

I'm thinking about what a well-worn prayer life might look like. I assume there's justice in there somewhere, but as the chic answer du jour* is not the last word, I thought I would take...

 

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Tags: Reinventing Sunday, Brad Berglund, liturgy, music, heart, soul, body, pilgrimage
 

Ad Fontes? What Fontes? A Byzantine Fontes?

Posted February 21, 2013 @ 10:53am | by Tripp

In all candor, this week's readings left me rather stumped. I'm stumped not in the whole, but in an apparent juxtaposition between my very minimal understanding of Platonism (Neo- or...

 

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Tags: Ugh, boo, hiss, my brain hurts, whine, I don't know a damn thing
 
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