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I see it this opinion a lot, these days. Most recently, in the Eastern Orthodox forum here. A couple of weeks before that, it was a Lutheran bishop who said it. If I remember correctly, I first encountered the thought in a Youtube talk or interview with NT Wright. He has a lot of influence, in...

Are there quarter tones in this, or something else - blue notes, whatever - that can not be written in Western musical notation (and that my ears don't grasp)? A couple of years ago I had severe sleeping problems. Then I listened to this a lot. Not sure I can sing it correctly, though...

So far, in my usual Western Christisn context, the word liturgy has usually referred to how a service or mass is arranged. What is said, sung and done. What's in the book, but also things like timing. How the priests performs the elevation (if at all). Mass celebrated versus populum (facing the...

I know these words. Or, I thought I knew ... in the Latin church, all three are different parts of the liturgy of the hours, beloncing mostly in monasticism but also in cathedrals and sometimes as individual devotion. Vespers is around 3-6 PM or so. It's mainly Psalms, some other prayers, and...

Is someone here familiar with both? (Since this is the Orthodox forum: Ignatian spirituality is a Catholic spirituality, with exercises created by St. Ignatius of Loyola.) Am currently going to an Orthodox church, and plan to continue doing so. Not really ready to take the big C word...

Hi! I had to pick a denomination so I picked "Lutheran". They baptised me, and I've never been a member anywhere else. Am kind of inbetween churches, though. Currently not a member anywhere. Am interested in the historical churches. Orthodoxy, to be more precise. Also high church Lutheranism...