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St John Passion by Arvo Pärt performed by The Hilliard Ensemble
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Robert W. Rust
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She had a dream about me. Did I accidentally send out too much psychic energy that her subconscious picked it up?
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@GottPianist B D G B. Over the F (E#) in the bass, it will sound like a G dominant 7 chord in third inversion.
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Musicians I am currently working on Chopin Etude op 25 no 10, the octave study. Can anyone tell me the notes of this chord. I can’t work it out for the life of me. The piece is in B minor.
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It is unbecoming of a sitting Senator to make sexual slights at podcasters.
It's unbecoming of a Christian to mock another Christian for maintaining their purity.
National Review@NRO
.@tedcruz: The ayatollah, good news, he got to meet his 72 virgins. The bad news is all of them are Nick Fuentes. #StopAntisemitism
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@husafell_stone Don’t make fun of Nietzsche. Make fun of his sycophants.
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Anyone who makes fun of Nietzsche is telling on himself. Those of us who have read him and understood him in German would never dare. Objectively a great man, and a great writer.
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@tomdallisblog You've done some great writing on The Shroud. There's a great piece by Arvo Pärt called La Sindone that was inspired by The Shroud. You might enjoy listening to it, I know I do.
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The Shroud of Turin is often debated—but what if the real question isn’t science first, but Scripture?
In this blog, I take us back to the Gospels themselves and ask a simple but important question: What do the burial accounts actually say? When we slow down and look carefully, especially at the original Greek, a clearer picture begins to emerge.
What we find is not contradiction—but consistency.
The Gospels speak of a sindon (a single linen shroud), alongside other cloths like the othonia and the soudarion. These aren’t competing descriptions—they’re complementary details that reflect real first-century Jewish burial practices. Even more interesting, the language used for Lazarus’ burial (where the body is tightly bound) is not used for Jesus, pointing to a different burial method altogether.
And that matters.
Because when Scripture is allowed to speak on its own terms—not filtered through assumptions—the idea of a burial shroud like the one in Turin is not only possible… it’s entirely consistent with the biblical record.
This isn’t about forcing evidence to fit a conclusion.
It’s about letting the text lead—and then asking whether what we see on the Shroud aligns with what the earliest eyewitness accounts actually describe.
Take a look and decide for yourself.
tomstheology.blog/2026/03/20/the…
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@Presbypianist He who sits in the heavens laughs, the Lord mocks them. Then He speaks to them in His anger and terrifies them in His fury.
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Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed
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NOW - Netanyahu: "Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good."
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@JasonFruit_ True. I was thinking about how certainly more have been composed; CPE Bach has a St. John Passion for example.
And JS is certainly letting his dramatic ideas drive; the famous part where Peter weeps is in Bach's Passion, but is absent from the Biblical text in John.
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There are only two St. John Passions which receive regular performance as far as I'm aware: Bach and Pärt.
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APRIL 11TH FUNDRAISER CONCERT: If you’re in Nashville come hear this! Playing some classical, jazz, film music, even gonna sing and play saxophone. Have some great players from X joining me, it’s at a historic venue, gonna be great. Links in the video and below. See you April 11!
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BLACKLISTED: In September the Knoxville Symphony invited me to their blind audition for Principal Clarinet, which I won by unanimous vote. Two days later their CEO called and refused to hire me, citing my ousting from the Nashville Symphony six years ago for resisting DEI as the reason, and instead gave the job to my runner-up, an obvious DEI hire who’s still in college. In response I sued the Knoxville Symphony two weeks ago for a year’s salary plus $25k for the 100 hours I spent practicing for the audition. This isn’t just about money though, it’s also about pushing back against these symphony CEOs who continue to put race and politics above merit and skill. Someone has to save our symphonies from being sacrificed on the altar of “diversity” and no one is better positioned to do it than me. Wish I didn’t have to do it but I’m doing it anyway. I was excited to take the stage with the Knoxville Symphony but instead I’ll see them in court. If Knoxville thought I’d walk away from this they were sorely mistaken.
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Imagine how big a problem Christian Nationalism will be once the Christian Nationalists hear about it.
Ryan Burge 📊@ryanburge
From a poll conducted in 2022 about Christian Nationalism: 39% of extremely conservative Americans said they've never heard the term. It was was 8% of extremely liberal respondents.
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Gardiner with the English Baroque Soloists are no less dramatic in interpretation, but the timbre pleases the ear.
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I'm a big fan of new and interesting performance interpretations and historically informed performance, but the buzzing of the low strings in the opening movement here make it so unpleasant.
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@DrDavidVernon The attack of the very first notes just about turned me off the whole album. The low strings are also buzzing, which is really unpleasant.
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He's done it again. After his phenomenal St Matthew and B minor Mass, Raphaël Pichon's St John is simply breathtaking. From the opening seconds, Bach's great religious drama is on fire — playing and singing of the highest quality.
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Low effort, name drop posting. If this is all we're doing here we should probably just go offline and leave this site to the bots.
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This checks out for Oregon. It's so difficult giving a talk on Pärt here because you have to talk about religion in the context of his music. It's almost always subject of a work, and he even has theological connections to its music theory. It's unavoidable, but bringing it up has a chilling effect.
Ryan Burge 📊@ryanburge
The least religious state in the United States is Maine - 55% of people claim no religious affiliation. However, there are six European countries who are more secular: Netherlands Sweden Norway Belgium United Kingdom Iceland
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The RW predictions about this will probably be accurate, but I so badly want this to be good.
NarniaWeb@NarniaWeb
Greta Gerwig breaks her near two-year silence on adapting ‘Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew’ by C.S. Lewis. “It’s all very under wraps right now, but it’s something that I’m just so thrilled about because it was the book of my childhood. It was the book series that I loved, and I lived through, and I spent so much time imagining myself inside of Narnia … It’s been a joy and an honor to be the person who gets to imagine this universe.” These are her first public comments about Narnia since May 2024.
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I'd rather spend $200 billion to create a new music culture that cares about the needs of listeners and performers.
James Fishback@j_fishback
Would you rather spend $200 billion to bomb Iran or…? A: give every teacher in America a $62,500 bonus B: provide downpayment assistance for 20 million young families C: build 1,300 rural hospitals
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