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Horns of Every Shape and Size!
Let's Begin with Prayer...
English - October 16, 2022 17:00 - 27 minutes - 15.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChristianity Religion & Spirituality queer church progressive christian sermon preach Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The Bible has taught us well to allegorize stories by substituting God for the male figure in a story, and Jerusalem or Humanity for the female figure. However, Hebrew poetry lends itself to double entendres and multiple meanings. With the help of the 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man, we will examine the well-established structure of this poem with curiosity; asking, “Can this song be sung a different way?”
Sermon begins at minute 6:36
Song of Songs 5:2-9 and 8:5-10
Resources: See the SMC website or Facebook page sermon posting for links to the songs below:
This sermon was written for Seattle Mennonite Church as part of their 6-week series exploring The Festival Scrolls of the Hebrew Tradition.