{"id":38994,"date":"2017-02-07T06:19:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T11:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=38994"},"modified":"2017-02-05T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T00:28:08","slug":"creation-and-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2017\/02\/creation-and-creativity.html","title":{"rendered":"Creation and Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38995\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2016\/12\/Creation-and-Creativity-poster.jpg\" alt=\"Creation and Creativity poster\" width=\"698\" height=\"960\"><\/p>\n<p>Coming up on February 22nd is an exhibit and performance\u00a0connected with the seminar on religion, spirituality, and the arts run by Sandy Sasso. It will include a performance of Aaron Copland\u2019s \u201cIn The Beginning,\u201d and so I am delighted to be able to get the students from my course on the Bible and music to hear an important piece of relevance to the course in a live performance. I arranged the topics so as to have our discussion of creation and music fall the day after this event.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up on February 22nd is an exhibit and performance\u00a0connected with the seminar on religion, spirituality, and the arts run by Sandy Sasso. 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