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    ​Joy Unspeakable

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    Jazz and the Blues as catalysts for communal contemplation

    Jazz and the Blues as catalysts for communal contemplation

    Tap Dancing as a Contemplative Practice

    Tap Dancing as a Contemplative Practice

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    ​Joy Unspeakable

    ​Joy Unspeakable

    is not silent, it moans, hums, and bends to the rhythm of a dancing universe. It is a fractal of transcendent hope, a hologram of...
    Jazz and the Blues as catalysts for communal contemplation

    Jazz and the Blues as catalysts for communal contemplation

    Like the familiar laments in Psalms, blues artists forthrightly engaged the issues in life that the church would not discuss—such as...
    Tap Dancing as a Contemplative Practice

    Tap Dancing as a Contemplative Practice

    Tap dance as a secular contemplative practice came into my view at an Atlanta showing of the Broadway show Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in...

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