Back to the future: fourth-century style reaches Bay Area seekers.(Cover Story)
From: The Christian Century
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Date: 11/20/2002
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Author: Bush, Trudy
A HALF HOUR BEFORE the Sunday morning service begins, St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco already displays the holy chaos that characterizes its worship. In the domed entrance hall a choir is practicing motets. In the rectangular "synagogue" area, where worshipers' chairs face each other across a long raised platform, the liturgist is rehearsing readers for the service. Worship leaders in brightly colored Liberian vestments hand out spiral-bound songbooks and ...
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