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Singing different songs
Singing different songs Father and daughter write together, from separate experiences I didn't know for some time that Don and Emily Saliers are father ......(Continue Reading) Randall Wallace: he's a former preacher and Scots-Irish "hillbilly" who has fought his way into Tinseltown. As a screenwriter and director, he
Screenwriter and director Randall Wallace is a man on a mission to bring the values of America's heartland to Hollywood. Born in Tennessee of Scots-Irish ......(Continue Reading)What about Mary? Protestants and Marian devotion
The name of the Theotokos expresses the whole mystery of God's saving dispensation.--St. John of Damascus (655-750) In the doctrine and worship of ......(Continue Reading)The ecstasy of God's dancers: now more than ever the world needs a gentle, tolerant version of Islam. Sufism is exactly that, but it faces growing hostility
Six years ago, in the autumn of 1998, I was sitting in a roadside tea shop surrounded by the desert landscape of Rajasthan, when I saw a succession of bicycle rickshaws appear over the horizon. The...(Continue Reading)Sacrifice of praise: emotion and collective participation in an African-American worship service
This paper draws on interviews and participant observation in an AME congregation to document the normative system of emotions and behaviors that make up an "emotional" worship service. First I discus...(Continue Reading)
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