Tag: Season of creation
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Grassroots music
On Sunday 7 May we celebrate ‘Land’ Sunday in Season of Creation, so let’s consider grassroots music in church – you might also think of ‘grassroots music’ as folk music. The soundtrack of the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? is pervaded with grassroots music of Northern America – you can listen to an interview…
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Season of Creation and the Evergreen God
In our Season of Creation services this year, we introduce Ross Langmead’s very pretty sung blessing “Evergreen God.” Langmead was inspired by Eckhart’s understanding of our spiritual growth proceeding cyclically through different paths. Eckhart summed them up in four paths: • via positiva, the way of fullness, gratitude and awe; • via negativa, the way of…