Glory to some people means one very specific thing – and at times one suspects how the use glory paints a picture of an insecure-but-big God needing lots of accolades. It's become a religious technical term with serious downsides.

To others, glory is a blurry religious word that carries little meaning – it's a word that's become a sound. Hmmm.

This week the Brandons try to make sense of this sound without ceding it to interpretive traditions that bow to an insecure authoritarian.

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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