![]() ![]() ![]() I remember paying close attention to the acoustics of our one hundred year old sanctuary. I did learn a lot about the power of the human voice, especially as it entered that amazing invention called the microphone. ![]() I didn't learn a great deal about the Bible when I was a girl. ![]() I sang in the children's choir for several years. Both my parents were raised in religious households but not heavily religious. We were not a family who stayed in church all day, as some families in our small town did. We went to Church once a week, at the standard time, and on the traditional holy day of Sunday but not in between. My parents were not Born Again people or heavy-handed Christians. Nikky Finney: God was all around but not everywhere. The poets were queried about their religious upbringing, current practices, and how these may or may not have influenced their writing, as well as general questions related to faith, doubt, and meaning, and more specific questions related to each poet's work.ĭianne Bilyak: What was the role of organized religion in your childhood and in what ways did it encourage you to write? The interviews began as her master's thesis for The Institute of Sacred Music & Arts at Yale Divinity School. "Questions of Faith" is a selection of excerpts from interviews that Dianne Bilyak has conducted over the past decade. ![]()
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