The singing of barbarous songs was part of classical spiritualism; the Norse witch, in The Saga of Eric the Red, insisted on the song of Warlocks being chanted, which secured the attendance of ‘many powerful spirits’; and modern spiritualists enliven their dark and dismal programme by songs....
one of the first to give the handsome brown-eyed rough-and tumble politician her vote. Word that Curley is in his old neighborhood spreads quickly drawing a crowd to the house, where James Michael brings a tear to the eye of his hostess singing the songs of Ireland for the famine girl...
When Beecher's church burned down, the volunteer fire department, which resented the moral- ism of the Whigs, refused to fight the flames and even sang songs while the fire raged (Beecher, 1864; Howe, 1979). In 1840, the Democrats even attempted to eliminate the Massachusetts State Board ...
Playing live songs interspersed with interviews and studio segments, it features many big-name artists, such as Eric Clapton and Neil Diamond. The film maintains a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is considered by many to be one of the best concert movies of all time. You may also like:...
In Corinth, the church became divided amongst the apostles, as one contingency would say I am of Paul and another would say I am of Peter. The division had begun. People were of Christ through someone else. That’s sort of how the Catholic Church works today. Catholics are of the Pope...
The Christian church has always struggled to embody the voice of God for people on Earth. In the High Middle Ages, people seemed to accept the notion that what the Holy Roman Catholic Church said, through priests and prelates, was God’s voice. If a pope said, “Go to Jerusalem and con...
Asia. But instead of focusing on the fissures, her works pay special attention to places where diverse religious groups pray together as one —“the lands where people have communed for millennia, where the chains of vendettas snap, where people share food, friends, dreams and songs,” she ...