Mood: Aspirational
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STLT#159, This Is My Song
This hymn, y’all. First – we’re already into the Peace section; Labor and Learning was short, sweet, and to the point. Second – I am not Finnish. Nowhere in my family’s known genealogy is there any Scandinavian blood; we’re all German and English, with a dollop of Dutch and a dash of Irish. Yet this Continue reading
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STLT#151, I Wish I Knew How
I think I know why white people don’t sing this song well. I may be late to the party on this, but it dawned on me as I was singing: we don’t know what it’s like to NOT be free. Sure, we get close if we’re female, or queer, or live with a disability, or trans. Continue reading
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STLT#141, I’ve Got a New Name
Y’all, this song brings up the same commentary about aspiration, and the same commentary about cultural appropriation, and the same commentary about gender inclusion, and the same commentary about zipper songs that I’ve offered before and will be compelled to offer again. And the truth is, I’m too tired to make the same arguments again. Continue reading
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STLT#138, These Things Shall Be
We now enter what we might call “The New Eden” section but which we actually call “In Time To Come” – this section is very aspirational, very “kingdom of heaven.” Which, I suppose, is needed, and helpful – goodness knows Dr. King’s “I have a dream” motivated people to reach for it, to believe in Continue reading
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STLT#95, There Is More Love Somewhere
So many choices this morning… Do I talk about the person for whom this tune is named, Steve Biko, the South African activist who spearheaded the Black Consciousness movement and died from injuries sustained while in police custody? Do I talk about the handy term zipper song, which indicates a song, often sung a capella, with Continue reading
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STLT#68, Come, Ye Thankful People
I’ve been watching the series The Crown on Netflix – it’s the story of the first few years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, told in that predictably sweeping BBC style that endears to us such shows as Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife. It’s full of beautiful scenery, palace intrigue (literally in this Continue reading
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STLT#12, O Life That Maketh All Things New
O Life that maketh all things new, the blooming earth, our thoughts within, our pilgrim feet, wet with thy dew, in gladness hither turn again. From hand to hand the greeting flows, from eye to eye the signals run, from heart to heart the bright hope glows, the seekers of the light are one: One Continue reading
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