The Choreography

This week’s Between Bread and Stone begins with gratitude for Bishop Jerry Lamb, whose courage helped hold this diocese together when almost everything visible had been stripped away. From there, Episode 64 turns toward the strange, beautiful choreography of worship: standing, sitting, kneeling, bowing, crossing, stretching, singing, sighing, and sometimes just trying to follow the person in the next pew. Underneath the comedy is a deeper question. What does the body know before the mind catches up? When does liturgy become performance, and when does it become freedom? Isaiah’s seraphim, Episcopal aerobics, incense, empire, and one honest man in a Bakersfield pew all meet in the same sacred smoke. You are welcome here. Protected Speech | Views My Own Between Bread and Stone © 2026 Stephen Brewer. All rights reserved. Podcast audio and full text may be quoted for noncommercial purposes with attribution. Gospel text from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Get full access to Drawing the Line at percival84.substack.com/subscribe