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The crowd surge at the Astroworld festival that killed 10 people and injured hundreds highlights the messianic nature of rappers.
From ‘Comfort ye’ to the Hallelujah chorus, the music of the Messiah is a much-loved Christmas tradition. Yet it was originally written as an Easter offering.
A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther King Jr.‘s moral and ethical vision.
Loren Jacobs’s prayer for victims of the Tree of Life congregation offended many Jews. Jacobs is part of a group called Jews for Jesus – a messianic Jewish organization with a complicated history.
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Full Professor of Ethics and Head of Department, Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology, Director of the Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Homiletics, Howard University
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Associate Director of Jewish Studies, Lecturer, Arts & Sciences Writing Program, Boston University
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Cellist and musicologist, University of Sydney
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Professeure à la Faculté des arts, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
