William H. Willimon - "A Woman Dancing" (March 26, 1989)

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	(energetic organ music)	0:00
-	Joyous Easter greetings to you all.	0:48
	Welcome to Duke Chapel for this great service of worship.	0:50
	Remind you that at 5:00 this afternoon,	0:53
	we will have a concert by university organist,	0:56
	Peter Williams, here in the chapel.	0:58
	And then at 5:00 tomorrow,	1:01
	a memorial service for the life and work of our retired	1:03
	Director of Chapel Music, J. Benjamin Smith.	1:06
	We're glad to have you.	1:10
	Those of you who are seated in the pews,	1:12
	if there's any room left to slide to the center,	1:14
	we invite you to do so.	1:16
	We're also glad, if you like,	1:18
	for people to be seated on the floor down in front.	1:20
	We're glad that you're here.	1:24
	Christ the Lord is risen today.	1:26
	Let us rejoice and give thanks.	1:29
	(slow instrumental music)	1:34
	(spiritual choral music)	3:36
	(slow instrumental music)	5:49
	♪ Christ the Lord is risen today ♪	6:31
	♪ Alleluia ♪	6:37
	♪ Sons of men and angels say ♪	6:42
	♪ Alleluia ♪	6:48
	♪ Raise your joys and triumphs high ♪	6:53
	♪ Alleluia ♪	6:59
	♪ Sing, ye heavens, and earth, reply ♪	7:04
	♪ Alleluia ♪	7:10
	♪ Lives again our glorious King ♪	7:18
	♪ Alleluia ♪	7:22
	♪ Where, oh death, is now thy sting ♪	7:28
	♪ Alleluia ♪	7:34
	♪ Once He died our souls to save ♪	7:39
	♪ Alleluia ♪	7:45
	♪ Where thy victory, oh grave ♪	7:51
	♪ Alleluia ♪	7:56
	♪ Love's redeeming work is done ♪	8:04
	♪ Alleluia ♪	8:10
	♪ Fought the fight, the battle won ♪	8:15
	♪ Alleluia ♪	8:21
	♪ Death in vain forbids His rise ♪	8:26
	♪ Alleluia ♪	8:32
	♪ Christ hath opened paradise ♪	8:38
	♪ Alleluia ♪	8:43
	♪ Soar we now where Christ hath led ♪	8:51
	♪ Alleluia ♪	8:56
	♪ Following our exalted Head ♪	9:02
	♪ Alleluia ♪	9:07
	♪ Made like Him, like Him we rise ♪	9:13
	♪ Alleluia ♪	9:18
	♪ Ours the cross, the grave, the skies ♪	9:24
	♪ Alleluia ♪	9:29
	(slow spiritual music)	9:37
	♪ Thine be the glory ♪	9:49
	♪ Risen, conquering Son ♪	9:55
	♪ Endless is the victory ♪	9:59
	♪ Thou o'er death hast won ♪	10:05
	♪ Angels in bright raiment ♪	10:10
	♪ Rolled the stone away ♪	10:15
	♪ Kept the folded grave-clothes ♪	10:21
	♪ Where Thy body lay ♪	10:26
	♪ Thine be the glory ♪	10:32
	♪ Risen, conquering Son ♪	10:37
	♪ Endless is the victory ♪	10:43
	♪ Thou o'er death hast won ♪	10:47
	♪ Lo Jesus meets us ♪	10:55
	♪ Risen from the tomb ♪	10:59
	♪ Lovingly He greets us ♪	11:04
	♪ Scatters fear and gloom ♪	11:10
	♪ Let the Church with gladness ♪	11:15
	♪ Hymns of triumph sing ♪	11:20
	♪ For her Lord now liveth ♪	11:25
	♪ Death hath lost its sting ♪	11:30
	♪ Thine be the glory ♪	11:37
	♪ Risen, conquering Son ♪	11:42
	♪ Endless is the victory ♪	11:47
	♪ Thou o'er death hast won ♪	11:52
	♪ No more we doubt thee ♪	12:09
	♪ Glorious Prince of life ♪	12:15
	♪ Life is naught without thee ♪	12:19
	♪ Aid us in our strife ♪	12:25
	♪ Make us more than conquerors ♪	12:30
	♪ Through thy deathless love ♪	12:36
	♪ Bring us safe through Jordan ♪	12:40
	♪ To thy home above ♪	12:46
	♪ Thine be the glory ♪	12:51
	♪ Risen, conquering Son ♪	12:56
	♪ Endless is the victory ♪	13:02
	♪ Thou o'er death hast won ♪	13:09
	♪ Amen ♪	13:15
	♪ Amen ♪	13:19
-	Please be seated.	13:33
	Let us pray.	13:43
	Oh living God, bring us forth	13:45
	from death to life so that,	13:47
	as the scriptures are read and your word	13:50
	is proclaimed, we might be brought	13:52
	to a sure and living faith in your Lordship.	13:55
	Amen.	14:00
	The first lesson is a reading from Exodus.	14:01
	Then Moses and the people of Israel sang	14:05
	this song to the Lord saying,	14:08
	I will sing to the Lord for he has triumphed gloriously,	14:10
	the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.	14:14
	The Lord is my strength and my song,	14:18
	and he has become my salvation.	14:21
	This is my God and I will praise him.	14:24
	My father's God and I will exalt him.	14:27
	The Lord is a man of war, the Lord is his name.	14:31
	Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast	14:35
	into the sea and his picked officers	14:38
	are sunk in the Red Sea.	14:40
	The floods cover them.	14:43
	They went down into the depths like a stone.	14:45
	Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron,	14:48
	took a timbrel in her hand,	14:51
	and all the women went out after her with timbrels	14:53
	and dancing.	14:56
	And Miriam sang to them,	14:57
	Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously	14:59
	the horse and the rider he has thrown into the sea.	15:03
-	Please stand for the reading of this altar.	15:12
	Oh give thanks to the Lord for he is good.	15:22
People	His steadfast love endures forever.	15:25
-	Let those who fear the Lord say...	15:29
People	His steadfast love endures forever.	15:32
-	Out of my distress, I called on the Lord.	15:35
People	The Lord answered me, he set me free.	15:39
-	With the Lord on my side,	15:42
	I do not fear.	15:44
People	What can man do to me?	15:46
-	It is better to take refuge in the Lord.	15:48
People	Than to trust in Princes.	15:51
-	Open to me the gates of righteousness.	15:54
People	That I may enter through them	15:57
	and give thanks to the Lord.	15:59
-	This is the gate of the Lord.	16:01
People	The righteous shall enter through it.	16:03
-	I thank thee that thou hath answered me.	16:06
People	And have become my salvation.	16:10
-	The stone which the builders rejected.	16:12
People	Has become the cornerstone.	16:15
Minister	This is the Lord's doing.	16:18
People	It is marvelous in our eyes.	16:21
Minister	This is the day which the Lord has made.	16:23
People	Let us rejoice and be glad in it.	16:26
Minister	Blessed be the one who enters	16:29
	in the name of the Lord.	16:31
-	People] We bless you from the house of the Lord.	16:33
-	Thou art my God, and I will give thanks to thee.	16:36
People	Thou are my God, I will extol you.	16:41
-	Oh, give thanks to the Lord,	16:44
	for he is good.	16:46
People	For his steadfast love endures forever.	16:48
	(slow choral music)	16:53
	(upbeat spiritual choral music)	18:18
-	A reading from the gospel according to Luke.	24:55
	But on the first day of the week,	25:00
	at early dawn, they went to the tomb,	25:02
	taking the spices which they had prepared.	25:04
	And they found the stone rolled away	25:08
	from the tomb, but when they went in,	25:09
	they did not find the body.	25:13
	While they were perplexed about this,	25:15
	behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel.	25:17
	And as they were frightened and bowed	25:20
	their faces to the ground, the men said to them,	25:23
	why do you seek the living among the dead?	25:27
	Remember how he told you, while he was	25:31
	still in Galilee, that the son of man	25:33
	must be delivered into the hands of sinful men	25:36
	and be crucified.	25:39
	And on the 3rd day, rise.	25:40
	And they remembered his words.	25:45
	And returning from the tomb,	25:47
	they told all this to the 11 and to all the rest.	25:49
	Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna	25:53
	and Mary, the mother of James, and the other women	25:55
	with them who told this to the apostles.	25:58
	But these words seemed to them, an idle tale,	26:01
	and they did not believe him.	26:05
-	Then Miriam took a timbrel in her hand	26:17
	and all the women went out with her	26:22
	with timbrels and dancing.	26:23
	And Miriam sang to them,	26:26
	sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously.	26:29
	Here in South Africa,	26:37
	funerals are often occasions for acts of defiance against	26:41
	the government, explained the serious	26:46
	white Western reporter.	26:50
	And behind him, sang and danced scores	26:52
	of black women from Soweto.	26:57
	I ask you, how could these women dance	27:01
	at a funeral?	27:03
	They had come out to the cemetery,	27:07
	a place of death and there they had embraced life.	27:08
	Now how does that happen?	27:16
	Of course, I do not have to explain to anybody	27:19
	how it happens, that we grieve.	27:21
	Grief is something you don't have to be taught to do.	27:26
	It comes quite naturally.	27:28
	You just say farewell to someone you love.	27:31
	Have a funeral for someone with whom you spent	27:35
	much of your life, face defeat and death,	27:37
	and who among us doesn't?	27:41
	And you will grieve.	27:43
	A popular book a few yeas ago was called, Good Grief.	27:46
	It is good for you to grieve.	27:51
	It is quite a therapeutic and natural.	27:52
	So go ahead and let it all out.	27:55
	You'll feel much better afterwards.	27:59
	But you won't feel much better because	28:03
	the trouble with grief is that grief,	28:05
	once vented, only awaits more grief,	28:07
	life being what it is.	28:14
	Death being what it is.	28:17
	Namely omnipresent.	28:20
	Life is one long string of deaths	28:25
	and therefore griefs.	28:28
	And grief is therapeutic,	28:30
	it's a way of adjustment.	28:32
	Grief is usually that anguished outburst	28:34
	on our way down the path towards resignation	28:37
	or else a brief crying whimper,	28:40
	as we accept and adjust.	28:45
	And therefore, it seems a bit immature,	28:52
	a bit childish and dumb to go on too much	28:56
	in the face of death, after all, what did you expect?	29:01
	Death is a part of life.	29:04
	"In my beginning is my end," says the Poet, Eliot.	29:07
	Or as Augustine once said to his congregation,	29:12
	it is as when a physician looks	29:16
	over into the bed of a dying man	29:18
	and shakes his head and sighs and says,	29:21
	"he's dying, he won't get over this."	29:25
	So on the first day of my life,	29:30
	someone could look over at me	29:32
	sleeping peacefully in my crib,	29:34
	and shake their head and say, "ah, he won't get over this."	29:36
	Life is terminal.	29:42
	After Good Friday, when Jesus was crucified,	29:47
	his disciples demonstrated what sensible, mature	29:51
	people they were.	29:54
	They grieved but they didn't go on and on.	29:56
	Easter Sunday found them back at work,	30:01
	back to business as usual, back to	30:03
	the great comfort of the status quo.	30:06
	It was a good campaign while it lasted,	30:10
	but we didn't get him elected Messiah.	30:12
	What can you do against Caesar?	30:14
	One said that he was going fishing.	30:20
	Another one went back and took up his trade.	30:22
	Thank God for the anesthetizing quality	30:27
	of the comfortable status quo.	30:31
	The facts as they are, the facts.	30:35
	Therefore our world values people who adjust and accept	30:40
	Our world values people who learn to march in step,	30:45
	rather than those who dance.	30:48
	Today's text comes from Exodus.	30:53
	We have followed the Hebrew slaves	30:57
	through the 10 plagues.	30:59
	And through Pharaoh's stubborn refusal	31:02
	to let God's people go.	31:04
	Through that terrible, awe-filled night,	31:08
	when there was weeping in the hones	31:11
	of the Egyptians at the death of their first born and	31:12
	that hasty exodus out into the wilderness by the Hebrews.	31:16
	Pharaoh, who in his own unbalanced,	31:21
	crazed grief	31:26
	over the death of his first born,	31:27
	Pharaoh showed very little grief	31:30
	over the death of the Hebrew children.	31:32
	Told Moses to take his people and to get	31:35
	somewhere other than Egypt.	31:37
	Eventually though, he got hold of himself	31:42
	and he said, I must have been crazy	31:44
	to let these Hebrews go.	31:45
	It will wreck the economy.	31:46
	These things ought to be done gradually.	31:49
	Pharaoh's advisors on the cabinet said,	31:52
	Uh, your grief almost got the best of you,	31:55
	but now's the time to get hold of yourself	31:58
	and stand up and act like a pharaoh.	32:00
	So Pharaoh sent his horses and his chariots	32:04
	to bring those Hebrews back.	32:08
	What did the children of Israel think	32:13
	when they looked over their shoulders	32:14
	and they saw that cloud of dust kicked up	32:16
	by Pharaoh's chariots and Pharaoh's soldiers?	32:17
	What did they think?	32:21
	Ah, this is how it shall end for us,	32:24
	they thought.	32:27
	Standing here out on the edge, close enough	32:29
	to taste freedom, but not there.	32:33
	This is how it shall end,	32:35
	with the mightiest army of the world	32:37
	bearing down upon us.	32:39
	If you wanted to weep, Israel, weep now.	32:41
	Well God, as it turned out,	32:48
	had other things in mind.	32:49
	You know the exodus.	32:54
	When the roaring of the Red Sea ceased,	32:57
	and the devouring and liberating waters	33:01
	were again calm, and the slaves stood, at last,	33:03
	on dry, free ground.	33:08
	Then you could hear music,	33:12
	music, old primitive music.	33:17
	Possibly, scholars tell us, the oldest fragment	33:22
	in the entire Bible, this song	33:26
	of Moses and Miriam.	33:28
	It is a song growing louder and more compelling.	33:32
	A strange rhythm of liberated tambourines.	33:37
	There, out on the edge of mighty empire,	33:42
	at the edge, where we would not have gone	33:46
	if we had not been prodded and called	33:49
	by a mighty God.	33:52
	There are Miriam and her sisters, dancing.	33:55
	They swirl, they make the tambourines sing	33:58
	as they slap them with abandon.	34:02
	When I think about how I almost didn't get over,	34:07
	sings the spiritual,	34:10
	How they dance	34:14
	How they dance.	34:18
	These women whose bodies ought to be exhausted	34:19
	with too much work and too much	34:22
	bowing and scraping before the tyrant.	34:24
	The tambourines have brought them to their feet,	34:30
	and they cannot be still.	34:34
	They do this because they have within them	34:39
	the most energizing force in the world, hope.	34:40
	They have given death the slip at last,	34:45
	they've gone over the edge, listen to Miriam's song	34:48
	and you will hear praise to God	34:52
	stronger than Pharaoh.	34:56
	Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously.	34:58
	The horse and the rider, he has thrown into the sea.	35:02
	Now, if we had a tambourine, would we use it?	35:08
	You see, we are modern and therefore sophisticated	35:12
	people, cynical about such primitive outburst.	35:15
	Tambourines are simple, primitive instruments	35:22
	to our sophisticated well-tuned ears.	35:27
	We don't believe in miracles, silly miracles,	35:32
	because we believe not in God, but in Pharaoh.	35:39
	In a couple of weeks, on April 15th,	35:47
	how many of your dollars will you give	35:48
	to buy pharaoh more chariots and horses?	35:51
	The empire, with its corporations	35:55
	and its bureaucrats may treat us like slaves,	35:57
	but at least we have the satisfaction	36:02
	of knowing we have learned to adjust.	36:04
	And despite our occasional grief,	36:09
	with a tranquilizer or two or a good stiff	36:12
	drink at happy hour, you can learn to adapt.	36:15
	After all, we are not uneducated,	36:21
	unsophisticated, uncontrolled people.	36:23
	We can adjust.	36:29
	Yet, even in our modern, Western cynicism,	36:34
	there is still something, something, something	36:38
	deep within us that still can respond	36:41
	to the sound of the tambourine,	36:44
	the haunting rhythms of Miriam's tambourine.	36:46
	Watch these women dance.	36:51
	Those who have had so little to sing	36:54
	or dance about their entire lives,	36:56
	and even our cynical modern toes	37:00
	begin to tap to the beat, the throbbing beat	37:03
	of Miriam and her sisters.	37:07
	As Walter Brueggemann says of this text,	37:09
	there is something primitive, and therefore	37:11
	potentially transformative about this song.	37:14
	So, you better be careful tapping your toes	37:21
	to such a beat, you might join this dance of freedom.	37:23
	The tambourine just disrupts and it makes	37:30
	people dance, it turns funerals into victory rallies,	37:33
	creates a critical space between us and the deadly,	37:38
	deadly status quo.	37:43
	When there are no tambourines, we don't dance.	37:47
	We fall into line, we march into step,	37:50
	we go to meetings.	37:52
	The image most acceptable in our world	37:56
	is not a woman with a tambourine,	37:58
	but a woman with a briefcase	38:00
	and a gray tweed suit and sensible shoes.	38:02
	We take away Miriam's tambourine	38:07
	and we give her an AK-47 or an M-16.	38:09
	It's called equal access.	38:13
	You see, the empire has ways of perverting	38:14
	even liberation.	38:17
	See Miriam and her sisters slap those tambourines	38:22
	and make them sing.	38:25
	Watch their feet kick up the dust,	38:27
	watch them soar above the Earth.	38:29
	Soar we now where Christ has led.	38:33
	We sang it just a moment ago	38:35
	as we sang of Jesus, risen Jesus, Lord of the dance.	38:37
	Don't ask now about belief or disbelief.	38:46
	For now, just let the tambourine minister	38:52
	to your cynicism.	38:54
	Come away and stand with us out on the edge,	38:57
	particularly on this Easter day.	39:02
	Because I know, even as I preach,	39:07
	that there are many of you, most of you,	39:09
	are here mainly for the music.	39:10
	And Sister Miriam would say, "you're exactly right."	39:14
	You haven't come here to think about resurrection,	39:20
	you've come here to feel it, to be part of it.	39:22
	So, the hymns and the trumpets and the thundering	39:28
	timpani tend to be much more to the point	39:31
	than any preacherly argument that I can make.	39:35
	Sister Miriam says, "you're absolutely right,"	39:39
	because there's some truth,	39:43
	like that truth that just erupts at Easter,	39:46
	that's too big to be contained in prose	39:49
	and dry logic.	39:53
	You got to sing it, you got to dance it to believe it.	39:56
	Last Easter, a woman emerged from this service.	40:01
	She said to me, "I've always thought about	40:06
	"the resurrection, but now I've done it."	40:10
	I noted that she was dancing as she left,	40:17
	as if a great weight had been removed	40:20
	from her shoulders, as if she were unbound and free.	40:22
	And I've noted she's back this Easter,	40:29
	sitting on the fifth row with a tambourine	40:32
	in her purse, just dying to dance.	40:33
	Death, defeat, disease, disappointment,	40:41
	how are they transformed into dance?	40:45
	I'll tell you, by the surprises of a living God	40:51
	who refuses to let pharaoh ever have the last word,	40:56
	who recognizes the authority and the boundary	41:01
	of no empire, including that empire	41:04
	ruled by great death.	41:06
	This God parted the Red Sea waters,	41:10
	this God rolled away the stone from the tomb.	41:12
	And those who gather to celebrate the works	41:18
	of this mighty God do it best	41:20
	through music and song and dance.	41:22
	Women, women who had never had anything	41:26
	in their whole lives to sing about	41:30
	went wild with tambourines at the exodus.	41:32
	A young woman named Mary burst forth	41:36
	into song when she realized she was	41:40
	going to have a baby.	41:42
	My soul magnifies the Lord, he's done great things.	41:43
	And it was to women, come out to the tomb	41:47
	that first Easter morning to dress a decaying body	41:50
	with spices that the angels said, he isn't here,	41:54
	he's risen, go, tell.	42:00
	And they just danced all the way back to Jerusalem.	42:04
	As St. Paul said,	42:10
	we do not grieve	42:13
	as those who have no hope.	42:16
	In the depth of the depression in the 1930s,	42:23
	the brilliant but cynical, H.L. Mencken,	42:26
	visited a black baptist church	42:30
	on the South side of Chicago,	42:33
	and like many visitors to such congregations,	42:35
	Mencken was deeply impressed by the exuberance	42:38
	and the joy in that congregation.	42:41
	Toward the end of the service, the preacher	42:45
	asked the visitor if he had anything to say,	42:46
	and Mencken stood up and said,	42:49
	"What I don't understand is	42:52
	"how you people can be so joyful when you've got nothing."	42:56
	And a woman's voice from the back of the congregation	43:05
	shouted, "Mister, we've got Jesus."	43:07
	And with that, the whole place just exploded	43:13
	into death defying dancing and praise.	43:16
	(inspiring music)	43:21
	♪ Come, ye faithful, raise the strain ♪	43:51
	♪ Of triumphant gladness ♪	43:55
	♪ God hath brought forth Israel ♪	44:00
	♪ Into joy from sadness ♪	44:05
	♪ Loosed from Pharaoh's bitter yoke ♪	44:10
	♪ Jacob's sons and daughters ♪	44:14
	♪ Led them with unmoistened foot ♪	44:19
	♪ Through the Red Sea waters ♪	44:24
	♪ 'Tis the spring of souls today ♪	44:32
	♪ Christ hath burst his prison ♪	44:37
	♪ And from three days' sleep in death ♪	44:41
	♪ As a sun hath risen ♪	44:46
	♪ All the winter of our sins ♪	44:51
	♪ Long and dark, is flying ♪	44:56
	♪ From his light, to whom we give ♪	45:01
	♪ Laud and praise undying ♪	45:06
	♪ "Alleluia!" now we cry ♪	45:14
	♪ To our King immortal ♪	45:19
	♪ Who, triumphant, burst the bars ♪	45:24
	♪ Of the tomb's dark portal ♪	45:29
	♪ "Alleluia!" with the Son ♪	45:33
	♪ God the Father praising ♪	45:38
	♪ "Alleluia!" yet again ♪	45:44
	♪ To the Spirit raising ♪	45:49
Minister	The Lord be with you.	45:58
People	And also with you.	46:00
Minister	Let us pray.	46:01
	God of birth, God of life,	46:13
	God of the dance,	46:17
	thou hast revealed the power of thy saving love,	46:21
	and once again, we proclaim with joy,	46:25
	I know that my redeemer liveth.	46:29
	Enlivended by the truth, which the empty tomb	46:33
	has laid bare, we lift our prayers unto thee,	46:35
	fervently praying that the promise of new life,	46:39
	even as we are surrounded by its beauty	46:43
	this Easter morn, may be made manifest	46:45
	throughout the world.	46:49
	Let us pray for all who are forlorn,	46:52
	forsaken, or stricken with grief.	46:55
	Like Mary Magdalene, may they be restored	46:59
	in their weariness, and comforted in their sorrow	47:02
	through a healing encounter with thee.	47:06
	Let us pray for the hungry and the homeless,	47:11
	the sick and the dying.	47:14
	Like the disciples in their time of need,	47:17
	may they be empowered to find hope	47:20
	in the midst of despair.	47:23
	Let us pray for those who are victims	47:26
	of poverty, oppression, violence, or prejudice.	47:28
	Even as Christ was unjustly accused,	47:35
	may they find the strength to persevere	47:37
	in the face of injustice.	47:40
	Let us pray for those who are attentive	47:44
	to the needs of others, yet who go unnoticed	47:47
	in this busy world.	47:49
	Like the women at the tomb,	47:52
	may they be rewarded for their unassuming acts of love.	47:55
	Let us pray for those who seek to know thee,	48:00
	yet question the faith.	48:03
	Like Thomas who sought proof of thy resurrection,	48:05
	may they be sustained through their times	48:09
	of doubting, and may they receive reassuring	48:12
	signs of thy presence in their lives.	48:15
	Let us pray for all who hunger and thirst	48:20
	for deeper faith, for clearer discernment,	48:23
	for more abiding love.	48:27
	As the disciples recognize thee in the breaking	48:31
	of bread, may we recognize thy face	48:34
	in the face of all our sisters and brothers.	48:37
	Oh, though, who didst rise again,	48:42
	arise and live within each of us now	48:45
	that we may become thy body in the world,	48:49
	that we may be thy feet to walk	48:53
	into the world's pain, that we may be thy	48:55
	hands to heal, thy heart to break	48:59
	is need be for love of the world.	49:02
	Thou risen Christ, make Christ of us all.	49:06
	Amen.	49:12
	And now in thanksgiving for the mighty acts	49:16
	of God, let us offer our gifts and ourselves unto God.	49:18
	(inspiring music)	49:26
	(inspiring choral singing)	50:08
	♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪	59:21
	♪ Praise God, all creatures here below ♪	59:28
	♪ Alleluia, Alleluia ♪	59:34
	♪ Praise God above, ye heavenly host ♪	59:42
	♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪	59:49
	♪ Alleluia ♪	59:55
	♪ Alleluia ♪	59:59
	♪ Alleluia, Alleluia ♪	1:00:02
	♪ Alleluia ♪	1:00:09
	♪ Amen ♪	1:00:16
-	Accept, oh Lord, our thanks and praise	1:00:30
	for all that you have done for us.	1:00:32
	We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation,	1:00:35
	for the beauty of this glorious Easter morning,	1:00:38
	for the wonder of life and for	1:00:41
	the mystery of love.	1:00:42
	Above all, we thank you for your son,	1:00:44
	Jesus Christ, for the truth of his word	1:00:46
	and the example of his life, for his steadfast	1:00:49
	obedience by which he overcame temptation,	1:00:53
	for his dying, though which he overcame death,	1:00:56
	and for his rising to life again,	1:00:59
	in which we are raised to the life of your kingdom.	1:01:01
	Grant us the gift of your spirit,	1:01:05
	that we may know him and make him known.	1:01:08
	And through him, at all times and in all places,	1:01:10
	may give thanks to you in all things.	1:01:13
	This we pray in the name of Jesus Christ,	1:01:16
	who taught us to pray with confidence.	1:01:19
All	Our father who art in heaven,	1:01:21
	hallowed be thy name.	1:01:24
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	1:01:26
	on Earth as it is in heaven.	1:01:29
	Give us this day our daily bread.	1:01:32
	And forgive us our trespasses	1:01:34
	as we forgive those who trespass against us,	1:01:36
	and lead us not into temptation,	1:01:39
	but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom,	1:01:42
	the power, and the glory for everyone.	1:01:46
	Amen.	1:01:49
	(inspiring music)	1:01:51
	(inspiring choral singing)	1:02:23
-	And now, may the God of peace,	1:05:24
	who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus,	1:05:26
	equip your with everything good that you may do his will,	1:05:29
	working in you that which is pleasing	1:05:33
	in his sight to the glory of Jesus Christ	1:05:35
	forever and ever, amen.	1:05:38
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:42
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:49
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:57
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:06:04
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:06:09
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:06:12
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:06:21
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:06:29
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:06:37
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:06:41
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:06:46
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:06:50
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:06:53
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:06:57
	(energetic spiritual music)	1:07:06

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Title:

William H. Willimon - "A Woman Dancing" (March 26, 1989)

Description:

Sermon start time: 26:18. Sermon end time: 43:21.
Death and other evil powers do not have the last word. Christians can still dance and praise God despite bad situations beause they hope in God. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “There’s some truth, like that truth that just erupts at Easter, that’s too big to be contained in prose and dry logic. You got to sing it, you got to dance it to believe it.”

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Date:

March 26, 1989

Speaker:

Willimon, William H.

Liturgical Calendar:

Easter

Biblical Book:

Exodus

Chapter and Verse:

Exodus 15:20,21

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Duke University. Chapel

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