Harriett Martineau once said, We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. To be certain, there are things in science that we do not believe because we can prove them, yet there is an endless pursuit to keep trying to […]
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Pastoral Notes
Why Jazz?
Dr. Willie James Jennings, a Systematic Theologian and Africana Studies professor at Yale University Divinity School, believes that the music of jazz inspires the faithful to see and experience the incarnation of God. In an article simply entitled “Seeing God in Jazz” Professor Jennings writes about the power of jazz and the lessons the church […]
On the Mystery of the Incarnation
On the Mystery of the Incarnation by Denise Levertov It’s when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind’s shell and enters the heart: not to a flower, not to a dolphin, to no innocent form […]
