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Sunday, March 27, 2022

Sunday Drive: A Ukrainian Prayer

Written and recorded in the past few weeks by renowned English composer John Rutter, and sung by the Cambridge Singers. The English translation is Lord, protect Ukraine. Give us strength, faith, and hope, our Father. Amen.

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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Sunday Drive: The Stars and Stripes Forever

Sousa's quintessential American march, as performed in their magnificent style by the world-famous Dallas men's choir, the Vocal Majority, whom your Head Trucker has been lucky enough to see and hear in concert several times:

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Sunday Drive: Brokeback Mountain Suite

Specially commissioned by the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, seen here performing in 2012.

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu