[Unedited] Marilyn Nelson with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Church Going, a Take on a Poem
This is a take on a poem by philip larkin called church going. It's about a young british man riding his bicycle through the countryside. He stops at a ruined church and walks the doors open. And then he goes to the cemetery and says that there he can feel something, because these people died believing something. That's why they're buried there. We moderns merely chant. But we are moved by a peculiar grace that settles a new ora on the place. This simple melody, though sung all wrong, captures exactly what i think is faith. I sit alone, tormented in my heart by fighting angels,. One group, black, one white. The victory...
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