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Leaders say the University Choir is more diverse than ever--members' faiths range from Mormonism to Judaism to atheism. Yet the student members arrive at the church by 9:45 a.m. every Sunday morning to sing sacred Christian music to a church full of Protestant worshippers...
...policy's always just been that if there's something you're uncomfortable with, you don't have to do it," says Morning and Sunday choir member Jesse D. Billett '01. "You have to sing, but that's why you're there...
Choir members say the sacred repertoire draws them to the church, rather than the chance to attend many, many services. Jewish choir member Ted Folkman, a third-year student at the law school, says he joined in order to sing works from the Christian canon...
...could go to synagogue and sing a Bach cantata then I'd be there every week," he says...
...there to sing the music and not to derive whatever religious meaning is in there. That's for the congregation," says Kao, who is of Buddhist faith. "If we're doing our jobs correctly then they can make it into their religious experience...