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Theology, Spirituality, and Religion ... And Politics?

  Archbishop Peter - Johann Faustus, you have been charged by the Holy Inquisition with blasphemy, apostasy, and rebellion before God's True and Holy Church. Are you prepared to confess your guilt? Johann Faustus - Your Holiness, please. I... I... I have only written... I have only explained the objective nature of our universe. I... I... I have plotted the planets and stars in their courses and have found... All I have ever stated... We are not the center of creation! Archbishop Peter - And what do such theories intimate, Doctor Faustus?  Johann Faustus (singing) - I've told you all I've learned. And yet you still insist. My words that you have read, the words that I have said, mean God does not exist.  - Prologue, In The Light: A Faustian Tale, A musical by Michael Mott and Nathan Wright - as performed by Zachary James and Jeremy Jordan In the Light is such a powerful, beautiful, heart breaking musical. It flows from fear to anger to madness to redemption to love with s...

Life, Death, Religion ... And the Point of it All

  Everyone talks about loss, like it's part of a story A game we must play. There's death and despair in the news every day.  Hundreds of people who don't catch your eye Hundreds of strangers who quietly die. One sole companion you'd never imagine would go. But what did you know? Strange how the sun keeps on shining What a false message it sends Part of the saga of living is learning that everything ends. - Prepared by Georgia Stitt, as sung by Jeremy Jordan This is just one verse of this song. The entire song touches on every thought and feeling I have ever had about life and death. Georgia's words tell a heartbreaking story. And Jeremy's vocals are heart-wrenching and achingly beautiful. The song is a powerful and emotionally journey about loss.  I have had a bit of obsession with death since my freshman year of high school. As my fellow Bloom-Carroll Alumni of the classes of 1991-1994 can attest, the 1990-1991 school year was brutal. Suicide and car accidents...