Short version: I had the same partial draft of a sermon from sometime Wednesday through Sunday morning, so I was an occasional stressball. But Sunday afternoon I sliced out lots of stuff I was really fond of but that just wasn't fitting, and I had a presentable text with time to spare before service. Actually preaching? I was (as expected) v v nervous, but in the sunlit room I also felt the Holy Spirit moving (which is not something I usually say) -- the experience was greater than the words I'd input on my computer screen.
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- Elizabeth Scripturient (the delinquent, ecumenical (
hermionesviolin) wrote,
Elizabeth Scripturient (the delinquent, ecumenical
hermionesviolin
"Shepherd me, O God, beyond my wants, beyond my fears, from death into life."
Short version: I had the same partial draft of a sermon from sometime Wednesday through Sunday morning, so I was an occasional stressball. But Sunday afternoon I sliced out lots of stuff I was really fond of but that just wasn't fitting, and I had a presentable text with time to spare before service. Actually preaching? I was (as expected) v v nervous, but in the sunlit room I also felt the Holy Spirit moving (which is not something I usually say) -- the experience was greater than the words I'd input on my computer screen.
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Shakespeare and our political moment
The ASP season for next year came out last Wednesday. At Actors’ Shakespeare Project, it is our practice as artists to listen: to listen to our…
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[RSC] The Merchant of Venice [2015-09-05]
In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. With its ships plying the globe, the city opens its arms to all—as long as they come prepared to do…
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[Shakespeare] all but the Henry 6s
In my writeup of RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, I mentioned that I had never read or seen that play before, which is a rarity at this point with me…
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