It can focus the attention while it also aids the memory. Anglican chant is a simple way of putting text into a repeated tune. Fields’s pulpit, or from the song evangelists that would lead us through Bill Gaither’s hymns. When we chant the Psalms in my Episcopal seminary chapel, we’re a long way from Rev. ![]() You don’t necessarily want to be there when it happens. Music lives in the body in a special way, which is why even this reserved white boy from Indiana can sometimes feel an inexplicable need to dance. Fields of the Ravensbrook Widow Missionary Baptist Bible Church could turn from sermon to song within a single sentence. They found the place where thought turned to song. The Black preachers that I spent time around in my childhood had the ability to make music out of a sermon. It can invite us through a door that we don’t have access to cerebrally. ![]() ![]() At the same time, though, music can also elevate.
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