2020 Pluscarden Pentecost Lectures - “‘It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive’: Praise in an Age of Agitation”

We live in times marked by the omnipresence of agitation—political, religious, economic, cultural, ‘virtual’, psychological, familial. Anger and unsettledness are everywhere. And, yet, the first words that the Church speaks every day are: “Lord, open my lips…