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“We must have women’s choirs. You are baptized in the same baptismal font–men and women. You drink from the same communion chalice. You receive the same bread. So men and women must both sing!”
So insisted the bishop Jacob of Sarug in the ancient Syriac church. Those who sang, men and women, were recognized as teaching theology through choral voice. Choirs mattered in shaping early Christian identity and worship.
Learn more in a recent interview with Brown University Professor of Religion, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, speaking with Catholic priest, Fredrik Heiding, SJ. The conversation took place following her plenary lecture at the June 2018 conference on “The Future of Syriac Studies” at the Sankt Ignatius Theological Academy in Sweden:
[Note that the web page with the interview is all in Swedish, but the interview is entirely in English. Scroll down to find the podcast bar above. Depending on how your browser displays, you may need to mouse around a bit to find the “play” arrow. When you see the hovering Swedish words “spela upp”, that’s it. Learn more about the conference (all in English) here.]
…pulling this highly recommended book down off my shelf to read again, in light of recent news events and necessary, valuable public outrage concerning the activities of a Harvard Humanitarian Initiative employee last week.
