This probably should be posted on the music forum but I need some informed opinions and thought this would get the most viewing.
First, let me introduce myself - I'm Sue Scott (no relation to Susita!) from Ohio. I've been newly Reformed over the past several years, starting during the years we hsed our daughter. My husband and I were delivered from a charismatic church that went bad and are now members of a PCA congregation which we love.
Here's my question:
I belong(ed) to a civic choir which specializes in sacred classical music. We began rehearsal for our spring concert Monday evening and among the sheaf of music we received was "The World Beloved, A Bluegrass Mass". Sounded interesting, but I got a shock when reading the lyrics - the concluding segment referred to God as "she"!! Other sections had a distinct New Age flavor with one portion describing God as taking form in the "guise of human grace". At the end of the evening I returned the music and told the director that I would be sitting out this concert for the first time in 15 years. My dd and her dh were also disturbed and talked with the director who rather ill-humoredly told them that he would edit out the offending part where God is referred to as "she". They are now sitting on the fence pending more insight and information.
My dd is going to email me the text to study and I am going to have our pastor look at it but I wonder if any of y'all have had any contact with this composition. I spent over an hour googling it and basically came up with nothing but rave reviews, although I did find the cd offered on Reiki-Bookshop.com. I also found a picture of the lyricist, Carol Barnett, who looks VERY new-agey, but of course, that is only circumstantial!
Sooo, if any of you out there have any information about this I would really appreciate it!
First, let me introduce myself - I'm Sue Scott (no relation to Susita!) from Ohio. I've been newly Reformed over the past several years, starting during the years we hsed our daughter. My husband and I were delivered from a charismatic church that went bad and are now members of a PCA congregation which we love.
Here's my question:
I belong(ed) to a civic choir which specializes in sacred classical music. We began rehearsal for our spring concert Monday evening and among the sheaf of music we received was "The World Beloved, A Bluegrass Mass". Sounded interesting, but I got a shock when reading the lyrics - the concluding segment referred to God as "she"!! Other sections had a distinct New Age flavor with one portion describing God as taking form in the "guise of human grace". At the end of the evening I returned the music and told the director that I would be sitting out this concert for the first time in 15 years. My dd and her dh were also disturbed and talked with the director who rather ill-humoredly told them that he would edit out the offending part where God is referred to as "she". They are now sitting on the fence pending more insight and information.
My dd is going to email me the text to study and I am going to have our pastor look at it but I wonder if any of y'all have had any contact with this composition. I spent over an hour googling it and basically came up with nothing but rave reviews, although I did find the cd offered on Reiki-Bookshop.com. I also found a picture of the lyricist, Carol Barnett, who looks VERY new-agey, but of course, that is only circumstantial!
Sooo, if any of you out there have any information about this I would really appreciate it!