by Kathleen Post | Feb 16, 2022 | Opinion
I was not expecting to meet the Holy Spirit when watching The Color Purple, but I am positive I did. “God is inside me and everyone else. That is or ever will be.” These were the words I heard sung over me at Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in New York City in the Summer of...
by Dale K. Edmondson | Nov 12, 2021 | Opinion
Anyone who thinks opera belongs in a museum or treats only the machinations of the elite needs to see “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” The first opera by a Black composer to be performed by the Metropolitan Opera Company in its 138-year history was given its Met debut on...
by Cathleen Falsani | Aug 5, 2011 | News
(RNS) “Music,” Ludwig van Beethoven said, “is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” Transcending dogma, creed, culture and even language, music has the power to elevate the soul as well as the mind. It’s the source of a type of faith as often...
by David Kerrigan | Jul 2, 2010 | Opinion
Finding God in a busy world is something I have returned to on and off over the years. I have led one or two devotional days on the theme but have done so from the perspective of a fellow traveler rather than with any pretense of expertise. I have tried to share how I...
