By Lauren Anderson-Cripps Guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, dulcimer, and harmonica often ring out alongside the organ and piano from the 1861 brick building in the historic district of Elizabethton, Tennessee. In recent years, St. Thomas Episcopal Church has focused on integrating bluegrass music into the Anglican liturgy, and the resonance of the two traditions has … [Read more...] about Appalachian Music Meets Anglican Liturgy in East Tennessee
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4 Lent, Year A: Beautiful Eyes
SUNDAY'S READINGS | MARCH 19, 2023 1 Sam. 16:1-13 Ps. 23 Eph. 5:8-14 John 9:1-41 The mysteries of existence, the unsolved problems, the perplexities for which there is no single and easy answer, often open a space where “God’s works might be revealed” (John 9:3). The question in John’s gospel (“Why was this man born blind?”) stands in for all suffering we do not … [Read more...] about 4 Lent, Year A: Beautiful Eyes