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Even staid Harvard got in on the act. Students milled around the festival, strolling between the fair's seven stages to hear gospel, reggae, hip hop and salsa...
...Angelo can do better than that. Last year he produced and wrote the funky, hopeful song Overjoyed, which appeared on an album by the Boys Choir of Harlem. And the last number on Brown Sugar is a love song with an uplifting gospel spirit called Higher. "Feels like heaven when I think about you," he sings. "Sparking that love within my soul." It's the best track on the CD. When D'Angelo sets his sights high, musically and spiritually, his aim is true...
Grateful Dead lyricist John Barlow, in a foreword to the indispensable handbook Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads, describes the fans' playful ardor as "a religion without beliefs." That sounds about right. For most Deadheads, a concert was a church they attended not so much for the gospel as for the communion and community, the hymns and the incense. A giant mushroom cloud of hallucinogenics would lay over the crowd like a fuzzy blanket...
...those years Christians were also a breakaway Jewish faction, still hoping to persuade other Jews that Jesus was the Messiah, though he appeared to have died in defeat. It was to account for Christ's arrest and execution, Pagels believes, that the Gospel writers framed the life of Jesus as an episode in the conflict between God and Satan. Their explanation for his death, Pagels says, is that "his divine mission met with supernatural opposition...
...Alex, 14 months. All of the jurors are members of the same community that she had angered and betrayed last November when her nationally-televised pleas to find the missing boys' kidnapper turned out to be stagecraft. In his closing argument, defense lawyer David Bruck quoted the Gospel of John: "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." Says Towle: "This is also a religious community with an anti-death penalty feeling. You cannot deny, when you sit here, the emotional ties people had with her, or with some member of her extended...