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Faith By Numbers: The 7 Last Words Of Christ
Things Unseen
English - October 11, 2016 14:14 - 4 minutes - 4.47 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSpirituality Religion & Spirituality Christianity things unseen religious multifaith faith spirituality christianity christian islam muslim Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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If you put together everything that the Bible records Jesus saying as he was being crucified, you find there are seven sayings, or ‘last words’. As well as finding hope in what Jesus said, the Anglican priest Lucy Winkett is also inspired by the fact that Jesus said anything at all.
As a trained musician, she draws parallels between Jesus’ cries from the cross and the blues tradition of singing out your troubles, and shares her experience of singing the liturgy in a cathedral against considerable opposition from within the church.