This is not the devotional I had hoped to write.
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It's ecstatic devotional music to this abstract deification of self.
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This was a devotional investigation into wherever he found himself.
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I open my phone and read a devotional about comparison.
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It's devotional, and if you're 10 years old, super profound.
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It could even be a video installation about Jain devotional rituals.
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I get ready for bed, have my devotional, and sleep time.
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Clearly, portions of my devotional that day incorporate his exact words.
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Kourtney, 36, posted a photo of her devotional journal's daily entry.
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This is not the devotional you wish to receive this day.
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He stretches pop structures with repetition that grows devotional, obsessive, hypnotic.
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My mother practiced a much more devotional and liturgically grounded religion.
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You also consider your work to have a devotional, iconic quality.
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It is a mission statement, a little peal of devotional music.
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Konnor McKay leads a devotional at a regional summer camp in Arkansas.
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"Indians loved any sort of spiritual tones or devotional tones," says Kalyan.
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For instance, how does romantic, devotional love co-exist with her feminism?
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They were sites of benign accumulation, with a vaguely regal, devotional aura.
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But this is sacred art, devotional as well as aesthetic in nature.
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Fontana started out professionally as a maker of commemorative and devotional art.
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In fact, his devotional practice shaped his life in other profound ways.
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But the devotional and philosophic aspects of religion, at its best, are beautiful.
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Devotional candles with Chip and Joanna Gaines' faces for sale in downtown Waco.
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Qawwali is a form of passionate, devotional Sufi music, specifically from South Asia.
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In 2016, Strider told a reporter he still sent Clinton daily devotional emails.
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In this regard, I am compelled to see these images as devotional icons.
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Like the altarpiece, it's a devotional image, but not entirely a religious one.
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One of our most important devotional acts is to give food to people.
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McKay says it's incredible that his inspirational devotional on teamwork has caused such controversy.
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Clinton had publicly praised the devotional, "Sunday Is Coming," saying it helped her heal.
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They're both beautiful devotional traditions, but they are outside the standards of western music.
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Should we stop buying "greener" products and cease our daily devotional practices of ecopiety?
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"Some of the most overtly erotic texts become sacred, devotional pieces," Mr. Agnew said.
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I kept a devotional journal, producing a record of jagged and fierce spiritual longing.
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It's a beautiful devotional, with lovely, lyrical entries about journeys and walks, barriers and missions.
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How do you take your communing: body-pummeling devotional or astral purification of the mind?
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She began making her own devotional music, overlaying surging, swelling ambient soundscapes with Sanskrit chants.
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She managed broken refrains to tunes she remembered from India, devotional songs and Bollywood hits.
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Politicos of all stripes are styled as saints and stamped onto novelty devotional prayer candles.
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There is something both revelatory and startling about hearing the devotional music of Alice Coltrane.
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I will say that when a painting clicks, it is something akin to that devotional feeling.
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Her faith in devotional attention and a workmanlike approach as transformative qualities in painting is palpable.
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" Another source was a Puritan devotional guide written by Lewis Bayly called "The Practice of Piety.
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Throughout the exhibition I sensed a devotional energy, in service to the work and the issues.
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Women especially have been targeted when wearing devotional headdress or body-covering clothing like the niqab.
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Marrying him was a political act, and sponsoring him for a visa is a devotional act.
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The mysterious user's post appeared on a devotional subreddit, a separated forum of sorts, called "The Donald".
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After ample journal time, I pick up my Bible, read a guided devotional, and say my prayers.
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In Latin America, where popular religiosity remains strong, football borrows from the devotional intensity of its fans.
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Some movements were very devotional, but the Osho movement had this philosophical side to it as well.
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Matthew Deuel, in the devotional he sent to Clinton the day after she lost the presidential election.
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An audience member held up a framed photograph of Imanuel as if it were a devotional offering.
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There is something trance-like, and mantra-esque that makes these short pieces feel like devotional music.
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When I say my work is devotional, normally I think of one person while I'm making it.
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On "A Love Supreme," Coltrane's magnum opus, the quartet drives its modal approach to a devotional extreme.
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JS: So you tie the success or sublime quality in painting to the devotional interests of the artist?
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For me, any devotional attention paid to Halo Wars proved to be an accidental crash course in mythology.
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Though his laminated life story is carefully encased behind glass, the general attitude toward Haring doesn't seem devotional.
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He is the founder of The Resistance Prays, a daily devotional aimed at defeating Trumpism spiritually and politically.
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Already a deeply devotional woman, the ardency of her faith seemed only to increase as her pregnancy advanced.
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You can see it throughout history—devotional music has always had a formless or cyclical, mantra-esque feel.
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This devotional practice, mirrored in churches worldwide in the Lenten Stations of the Cross, encourages reflection and penitence.
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He converted to Islam and gained notoriety as a singer of nasheeds, or Islamic devotional music, in German.
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In its devotional richness, each of Mr. Ohtake's books has the quality of a contemporary Book of Hours.
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He is the founder of The Resistance Prays, a daily devotional aimed at spiritually and politically defeating Trumpism.
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Nestled in the netting, these mundane items suddenly looked potent and significant, almost like devotional or talismanic objects.
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You can see it throughout history, devotional music has always had a formless or cyclical, mantra-esque feel.
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" A devotional card made in Paris in the mid-1800s that reads, "Crown of sorrows, crown of glory.
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The Winthrop Brandons lived in a small cottage in Williams Court near two taverns and a devotional bookshop.
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McLain also authored a three-week tie-in devotional called It's Worth It, released at the same time.
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But since I was painting these more from a devotional standpoint, they lost a bit of that energy.
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At first glance, the small devotional altar called "Feeding the Fishes" is beautiful with its glittery gold finish.
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The idea is to enable students taking elective courses to study the Bible as literature, not as devotional material.
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This past Sunday I finally was able to get Lance to do a devotional and break out his shell!
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Days later Nithyasree Mahadevan, a prominent singer, was forced to apologise for devotional songs referring to Christianity and Islam.
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The event started with kirtan -- Sikh devotional hymns played on Indian classical instruments, including the harmonium and the tabla.
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I went home to bed, and then I got up to write the hardest devotional I had to write.
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Other games, like Mutant League Football, have tended to be tongue-in-cheek about the devotional aspects of sports.
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God thinks you should try this new chronological Bible written in modern slang, it's really deepened his devotional time.
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Yet he carries on with the devotional fervor of someone whose life's work is an all-consuming, ecstatic pastime.
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These exceedingly rough, yet intricate and delicate sculptures have a look of both obsessive folk art and devotional shrines.
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She has been working on finishing the devotional text for a while now but is not done reading it.
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Novitiate draws on an old idea, that of the religious life as ecstatic, but it isn't a devotional film.
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The show includes fragments from choir books and books-of-hours (lavishly illustrated devotional texts made for everyday churchgoers).
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Commissioned for the convent of Corpus Christi in Mexico City, the work's inspiration was as much political as devotional.
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All ask, in different ways, how we should approach works whose devotional intensity is alien to most modern listeners.
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Davey, allowed Washington State to offer college scholarships to all students except those pursuing a degree in devotional theology.
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On Thursday evenings people congregate to listen to the religious songs called qawwali and perform a devotional dance, dhamal.
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Playing piano and occasionally singing, Mr. Riley's performance ranged from Indian-influenced devotional music to a meandering electronic jam.
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Hopefully, what comes across in my work is a kind of heightened devotional object that has a radiant presence.
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The implicit suburban whiteness of these caricatures is both critiqued and reinforced as integral to the devotional teen-girl narrative.
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His father, from a family of religious teachers, guided Rumi through retreats, devotional acts and other traditional methods of learning.
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The 700 Club became increasingly political in the late 1970s, and news segments were added to the purely devotional program.
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He traded his hard driving gangsta-style lyrics for Islamic devotional songs called Nasheeds, including one that praised bin Laden.
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The Leftovers, to his credit, never toed the genre line; it is firmly and outwardly devotional, and always has been.
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It's tricky devotional work, and dangerous, too, given the terrain and the traffic on winding roads up and around mountains.
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Before getting the devotional design on her face, Karter hinted that something special was in the works on her Twitter.
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The firm originally sold cassettes featuring devotional music and eventually became a record label giant with more than 3,500 employees.
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Dozens of those manuscripts, spanning centuries and genres, including devotional texts and works aimed at children, will be on view.
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The girls, Ms. Valencia said, were rehearsing "these very devotional dances" to perform for the dictator Marshal Josip Broz Tito.
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In his "Great Visionary Transformation" series, Zheng Guogu layers multiple thangkas, or Buddhist devotional images, into trippy, color-filled paintings.
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As a teenager researching a school project, Frésquez found a retablo, or devotional painting, attributed to artist Pedro Antonio Fresquís.
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The Wisconsin-based group of atheists, agnostics and free-thinkers, was enraged by the devotional and accused the preacher of proselytizing.
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"There aren't other devotional Last Suppers with such a strong sensual touch," says Rossella Lari, the conservationist who led the restoration.
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"This past Sunday I finally was able to get Lance to do a devotional and break out his shell!" he wrote.
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The Sufi tradition is a moderate, inclusive version of Islam, in which saints, devotional music and dance play a central role.
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Asked to describe his reaction to seeing the explosion, Oppenheimer quoted a verse from the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu devotional text.
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Its classes, which are streamed from a studio in Manhattan, faithfully recreate the moody, devotional atmospherics of a boutique spin class.
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People seem to think I have the inside scoop on how these men relate their devotional lives to their public service.
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He was as convincing singing about drinking and heartbreak as he was performing sentimental and devotional numbers, topical material and novelties.
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But, as editor Jon Crabb notes in his introduction, woodcut images were also first adopted by Catholics to publish devotional images.
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Price$250LikeGreat Grado sound, now wirelessNo LikeBuild-quality feels flimsyFor a certain brand of nerd, Brooklyn-based Grado Labs inspires devotional loyalty.
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What you may also come to appreciate if you linger is Mr. Ligon's role in the work, which is, above all, devotional.
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The exhibition examines the ways in which Florentine devotional painting from the period paved the way for the art that came later.
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To most people today, sacred choral music of the 16th and 17th centuries is a calming oasis, or perhaps a devotional aid.
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Herzog says the paintings mark the start of "the modern human soul," and suggests that they may be devotional in some way.
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He completed portraits, much admired, of Ludovico's mistresses, and set up a workshop that turned out devotional pictures for a wealthy clientele.
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While some of the tracks are focused on Bhakti, Hindu devotional music, others take a far more political, often stridently nationalist tone.
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Aesthetically, Rivette opts for a picturesque rigidity that recalls devotional art of the Middle Ages in his construction of mise en scène.
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Audiences and critics embraced its signature blend of modern dance and devotional gestures to convey the struggle between the sacred and profane.
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I was reading my devotional this morning, and it said, you know, what's the next big thing for you in your life?
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Sure, it was over-played for a moment there in 2014, but it's powerful enough to beg our devotional attention years later.
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" But, she said, "there is something very devotional about showing up every week in front of a crowd and chanting similar things.
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Hartigan and Herzbrun embraced personal sentiment in their references to nature and popular culture, resulting in abstractions that are simultaneously experiential and devotional.
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The display will feature personal objects and artworks from LA's Afro-Latinx community, including clothing, jewelry, photographs, musical instruments, recipes, and devotional objects.
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And slowly, a cultural awareness has grown of her devotional music—which was never intended for audiences outside the community of her ashram.
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A jazz aficionado whose musicology runs deep, Evelev had been an Alice Coltrane fan since the 1970s, but had dismissed her devotional music.
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This exhibition places particular emphasis on the devotional and ritual use of this new art — the spiritual mechanics that made it more than beautiful.
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I wake up, read the news, meditate for 15 minutes with Headspace, read a daily devotional, do some laundry, and get ready for work.
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Amjad Sabri, 45, was one of South Asia's most popular singers of the 'qawwali', Sufi devotional music that dates back more than 700 years.
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"Final Exam" carries an air of devotional music, bringing together techniques from ambient and drone with a song structure designed around gorgeously stacked chords.
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His intriguing new album, "What Was Said," brings in a vocalist, Simin Tander, to sing devotional music drawing from both Scandinavian and Persian traditions.
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To be released in October, it nods in sound and subject to both the Harlem rapper Cam'ron and the Qawwali devotional singer Aziz Mian.
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These single images, diptychs, and triptychs, dramatically lit from the skylight above, are reminiscent of medieval reliquaries, Eastern Orthodox icons, or personal devotional objects.
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The donation from the Sir Victor Sassoon Chinese Ivories Trust includes intricately carved Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian devotional figurines; brush pots; fans; and vases.
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Most of the time, I read a devotional from She Reads Truth ($1.99 per month), which gives me a curated daily scripture reading plan.
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G.R. This elegiac number — clean, slow techno with a trip-hop haze atop it — combines the devotional and the sensual in uncommonly seamless fashion.
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But the tiny green alien the internet loves to love might be the only Star Wars creature with its own devotional candle on Amazon.
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Without saying which one is better than the other — because I'm sure there are Christians in both — my preference is clearly for the devotional.
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Street stands sell hats embroidered with the face of El Chapo, devotional rosaries to the narco-saint Malverde, and pendants shaped like AK-47's.
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Colin: I don't know why my zealous youth pastor tried to say Halloween was for sinners cause so much devotional art is spooky as shit.
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The tireless acts of stacking, notching, and varnishing these thin wooden layers into hope chests and encrusted jewelry boxes might be considered a devotional practice.
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What may be quite obvious now is that though this book is about horses, it is just as much about thinking as a devotional act.
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Ms. Lawler and others fixated instead on dissecting and exposing, often through photography, the power dynamics of art-world institutions, business practices and devotional tendencies.
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The president had attended morning devotional service before attending the last of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project in Canada, according to the statement.
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The book in question, a collection of devotional readings titled "My Utmost for His Highest," had been beloved by evangelicals since its publication in 1927.
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Bhakti itself means "devotional worship directed to one supreme deity," usually Vishnu or Shiva, although belief in a higher power isn't a prerequisite for attendance.
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He often led the football team&aposs "Christian devotional," but it was a "widely known fact" on campus that his mother was Jewish, the lawsuit says.
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I hate "resistance merch" as much as the next cynical lefty, but I'm willing to make a very *special* exception for these Robert Mueller devotional candles.
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The aesthetic — a neo-Gothic stained glass window, a devotional statue, a series of paintings depicting the life and suffering of a martyr — is perfectly familiar.
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Hasselbeck also suggested that Earhardt read a devotional every day on the way to work to settle her mind and help prepare for the day ahead.
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It's a painting and rock 'n' roll den, where art is the total, almost devotional focus; Acheson does not care about trading niceties or being ingratiating.
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The 92-year-old former president and former first lady Rosalynn Carter returned to the Habitat for Humanity build site, where they attended the morning devotional.
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Hundreds of worshipers were inside the shrine of the Sufi saint Shah Bilal Noorani, and dozens were performing a devotional "dhamal" dance when the bomber struck.
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He taught that the material world is temporary and that man could attain his highest spiritual development through devotional service to the supreme divinity, Lord Krishna.
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That exhibition had stunning works, like the silver chefs-d'oeuvres "Silver Marlon" (1963) and "National Velvet" (1963) — flickering, glamorous, almost devotional images that I just love.
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The 492 devotional caves, hand-carved into sandy cliffs, house the world's largest and longest-used treasure of Buddhist art in the world, to paraphrase Unesco.
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Dramatically lit from skylights above the darkened spaces of these historical vaults, the works are reminiscent of medieval reliquaries, Eastern Orthodox icons, or personal devotional objects.
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Politicians from the A.A.P. visited Hindu temples, sang devotional hymns and avoided talking about the protests, which the B.J.P. has painted as hotbeds of Muslim extremism.
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Within American evangelicalism, many expect faithful Christians to dedicate the "first fruits" of each day to "quiet time" with the Lord (prayers, devotional reading, Bible study).
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All that is good and well, and in the setting of the Rubin Museum one instantly thinks of the many Buddhist and Hindu devotional carvings downstairs.
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My journal cost me $3 from T.J. Maxx, my devotional is free from church, and my Bible is so old, but it was free from my church.
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CNN reported on the first discovered instances of plagiarism in August, when Shillady was found to have plagiarized an emotional devotional he sent Clinton at 4 a.m.
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The devotional images of the Madonna, Christ, and saints that exist in so many Roman Catholic homes (on candles, cards, wall hangings) express a deeply felt piety.
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The lineup includes a performance by the Jerusalem Andalusian Orchestra, a concert of Ethiopian jazz by the musician Mulatu Astatke and a participative devotional sacred music event.
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The devotional format strains to contain a high volume of bit-part back stories and anecdotal asides that Nell, "born observant," records in lieu of scientific data.
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Since then, he has sold millions of records and won scores of awards for a brand of gospel that blends secular sounds with an uplifting devotional message.
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Often, as in "I Would Die 4 U," he crafted symbolic structures that, depending on the listener's mood, could be read as sensual or devotional, or both.
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As its name indicates, the work is an ex-voto: a devotional painting created to commemorate divine salvation from terrible misfortunes, from severe illnesses to natural disasters.
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Part of the movement's second generation, the artists embraced personal sentiment in their references to nature and popular culture, resulting in abstractions that are simultaneously experiential and devotional.
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During Trump's first appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning, he chose not to open, as other leaders have in the past, with inspirational or devotional messages.
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From the haunting, almost devotional quality of the vocals to the endlessness of each chord as it rings out, this album feels larger than life yet frighteningly human.
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Devotional Hindu serpent drawings are juxtaposed with Philip Kwame Apagya's portrait photography shot against drawn backgrounds of contemporary technological apparatuses like office desks laden with phones and computers.
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This month's playlist includes songs by Kanye West, who is signed to Mr. Simmons's Def Jam label, and Krishna Das, an American vocalist who performs Hindu devotional chants.
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Like the 48 surviving copies of the original Gutenberg Bible, the manuscripts are devotional rather than functional objects, the geneses of a new practice of reading and writing.
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"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies," Salima Ikram, an Egyptologist and mummy expert at the American University of Cairo, told The Guardian.
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" The conversion was more poetic than devotional in spirit, Mariani speculates, but, perhaps, "being a surety lawyer—he opted to sign on the dotted line at the end.
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Metal binding in particular goes back to the Middle Ages and sometimes included jeweled details; the practice endured into the 19th and early 20th centuries for private devotional books.
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She taught herself and the other nuns to paint, and set up such a successful art workshop that the convent became financially self-sufficient, selling devotional pieces to noblemen.
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Shillady said in a statement to PEOPLE that he was "stunned" to learn that his devotional, "Sunday is Coming," was so similar to a post written by the Rev.
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For Displaced, Siributr focuses specifically on the relationships of the Theravadic Buddhist majority to the Muslim minority in Thailand and Myanmar through his use of devotional fabrics and symbols.
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He has long felt drawn to the priesthood; the two masses he has composed and his book on devotional readings, "The Bible as Prayer", are commentaries on his belief.
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"Jai Shree Ram," the old devotional chant praising the Hindu deity Ram, has been adopted as a war cry by the Hindu nationalist mobs in the past three decades.
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And other objects here, including a tiny, hinged wooden prayer bead that opens to reveal a minutely carved devotional scene, extend our view of European religious art beyond painting.
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In the film, the two lovers have a falling out over a class-based misunderstanding, but in the musical the authors make the dispute devotional: She's Catholic, he's Hindu.
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I mean, so much of what a poem is, I think, is [a] devotional request for attention or to feel one's self arching in ecstasy and about to crash.
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By turns flinty and tender, devotional and irreverent, haunted and enraptured, Cash's poems — which date back to the 1940s — proved as multifaceted and emotionally far-reaching as the man himself.
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As you might expect, Action Bronson's first book, to be published on September 12, is more than just a cookbook—it's part manifesto, part proclamation, part devotional, and all Action.
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It occurs simultaneously with the holy day of Our Lady of Navigators, a devotional title for the Virgin Mary, to whom Portuguese seafarers would pray for a safe return home.
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As with the devotional object tradition of Lana Del Rey and Katy Perry, Seyfried is drawing upon a concept of the Catholic that is in fact an art historical idea.
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Plans for an exhibition titled "A Global Saint in a Virtual World: Devotional Diasporas of Shirdi Sai Baba" were interrupted after she learned she had metastatic breast cancer in 2010.
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But Ms. Hindman noted that, despite the devotional touch points, the pieces have almost nothing to do with traditional religion, nor are they fashion items, accessories or traditional art objects.
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With a full band this time, he sings in a warm-ember baritone over wafted horn harmonies, seeking to reconcile Mr. Simon's devotional patriotism with a contemporary drive toward action.
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We are by turns aggressive and devotional, and must appear, to those unfamiliar with our tradition, as if we're trying to viciously kill something, while stricken by remorse between attacks.
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In the original German the interlocking rhymes have the simple mnemonic power of devotional verses for the layman; each stanza ends with a rhyming couplet exhorting the reader to compassion.
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JON CARAMANICA A lovely devotional about the long, tight hold a place can have on your heart, and self-conception, St. Vincent's "New York" soothes and shivers all at once.
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In the end, she's a devotional artist, in the religious or spiritual sense: Her 19603-48 painting of the Hindu goddess Saraswati was originally displayed on her family's home altar.
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The service involves a rock group leading the congregation in devotional songs, several instances of speaking in tongues, and testimony from Emily, a young Singaporean who converted her father to Christianity.
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" The island's streets had traditionally been dotted with works of devotional art, depicting figures like the Virgin Mary, and Mr. Grimaud said "there isn't a history of vandalism on the island.
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To Ms. Schiess, this is one more sign that a new ritual has superseded Sunday worship and weeknight Bible studies: a profane devotional practice, with immense power to shape evangelicals' beliefs.
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In recent years, the country's Muslim majority has embraced more overt signs of religiosity and shifted toward Arab-style devotion: flowing clothes and veils, Arabic names and Middle Eastern devotional architecture.
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And I would not presume to say that one is better than the other because I'm sure there's good Christians in both, but my preference is certainly for the devotional side.
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This traveling series takes its name from both the spaces where it hosts its concerts — churches — and what it presents: "modern contemplative and devotional music," according to its Facebook-stated mission.
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It might seem patently ridiculous to compare the types of devotional experiences Dorsky finds with experimental film to new media experiences that are more compatible with getting zonked on Red Bull.
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The festival is essentially Coachella for the higher consciousness community, offering a four-day schedule populated by yogis, devotional musicians, lecturers, astrologers, and artists with names like Windsong and Light Hawk.
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The "legacy" part of the show, especially, could be likened to "devotional art" says Ms Ahlberg Yohe, who emphasises the painstaking and time-consuming effort involved, especially in the finishing of items.
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Churches and anti-abortion groups have organized group viewings of the film, according to the Times, and the Unplanned website includes a devotional called Planned From the Start, aimed at religious viewers.
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It began in mid-December when Hawkins, the only African-American tenured professor at Wheaton, decided to use the Christian Advent devotional season to inspire her students to counter bigotry against Muslims.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. The first ever advent calendar, in 211, was a series of devotional images designed to remind its owner of the true, sacred meaning of Christmas.
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Donated by Rosin's family, The Nancy and Henry Rosin Collection of Valentine, Friendship, and Devotional Ephemera is considered the "best private collection of its kind in the world," according to the Huntington.
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"Popular Catholicism is incredibly culturally important, and has been an important focus for art among especially Latina artists in the United States because it's often associated with women's devotional practices," Hidalgo says.
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What Seligman named "positive psychology," using a term coined in 1954 by humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, promises personal transformation through the redemptive power of devotional practices: counting blessings, gratitude, forgiveness, and meditation.
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The international gallerist Bob Haboldt had recently found an exceptionally well-preserved portable devotional painting of the Madonna and Child by Paolo Veneziano, a 14th-century artist, in a house in France.
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Engendered by the imaginations of the monks, it has been transformed through the intercession of time and the elements into something other than the devotional display its makers intended it to be.
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Also in recent days, there was a debate in the Irish parliament on a proposal to secularise state-funded education, ending devotional teaching and insisting on an open admissions policy for all schools.
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Senenmut and Hatshepsut appear to have been close; she afforded him great power and access to her household, and lavished him with many tokens of favor, including devotional reliefs in her funerary temple.
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"Ritual" finds the artist unapologetically aiming for total hands-in-the-air catharsis, and to that effect, the vocal has an almost devotional quality, even recalling gospel music's melodic turns at certain points.
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That might be why Stevens committed himself to recording Christmas music once every year for an entire decade, inspecting and occasionally subverting a genre that's typically among the world's most devotional and didactic.
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But one of the reasons that albums like this have remained obscure is that they were recorded with a specific pursuit in mind: they were for the ashram, devotional songs for fellow-worshippers.
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Christianity was ceasing to be the apocalyptic annunciation of something unprecedented and becoming just the established devotional system of its culture, offering all the consolations and reassurances that one demands of religious institutions.
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She said some works were acquired based on relationships he had with the artists, some because they were connected to devotional practices that interested him, and some simply because they caught his eye.
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" As Ms. Coltrane wrote in an insert for "Divine Songs," a cassette released in 1990, "chanting is a devotional engagement, one that allows the chanter to soar to higher realms of spiritual consciousness.
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J.P. An unhurried young R&B singer from El Paso, Khalid has a voice that's slightly fissured, cut through with a touch of Sampha's devotional air and a bit of Michael Kiwanuka's pensiveness.
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The Late Night with Jimmy Fallon premiere of the Dilla-meets-devotional highlight "Blessings" dramatized the biblical Jericho wall crash and made room for a word from "Dwell Among Us" singer-songwriter Byron Cage.
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Denominational presses publish monthly and seasonal devotionals that churches distribute, and commercial presses sometimes market annual devotionals, including one a few years ago called The President's Devotional: The Daily Readings That Inspired President Obama.
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As he sings about love at its most devotional and all-consuming, his androgynous voice arrives as a multitude — tenor and falsetto, whisper and proclamation, moan and chant — and it appears from all directions.
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Flowers, devotional candles and plastic-wrapped volumes of Spinoza and Hesse are piled on his grave, and a small photograph shows him speaking to a crowd, clutching a microphone, his face open and earnest.
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In 21980, the Spanish Colonial Arts Society was established to promote and preserve crafts, including Colcha embroidery (using naturally dyed yarn), handmade copper engravings, gesso and painted reliefs, retablos (devotional paintings) and straw appliqué.
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Evola, especially in his Revolt Against the Modern World, invokes the Knights Templar to argue for a kind of spiritual knighthood that supersedes what he calls "exoteric devotional Christianity" with a more mystical chivalry.
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Conversely, some of Mr Trump's opponents embraced Mr Mueller with a quasi-religious zeal (witness the Mueller-face earrings and Mueller devotional candles available on Etsy, the e-commerce equivalent of a hippie grandmother's attic).
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Choral muwashshah are interwoven with instrumental and solo vocal improvisations to create the complex suites of music that are traditional in the Middle East, with a mood that is by turns exuberant and ecstatically devotional.
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While Christianity remains prominent in public life, it has become so marginal in many private lives that the idea of a devotional might be unfamiliar even to those who identify culturally with the Christian faith.
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I generally have the same morning routine, hit snooze, text my clients' parents to confirm sessions for the day, read a devotional, turn on the latest episode of The Daily, and hop in the shower.
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The installation sprawled across three floors, taking over the Astor Court and the Chinese galleries and juxtaposing their contents—devotional sculpture, masterpieces of calligraphy, Qing ceramics—with several centuries of couture inspired by Eastern exoticism.
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A large number of people had been performing a spiritual, devotional dance when the bomber struck in the courtyard, officials said, turning a place of spiritual reverie into a spectacle of blood and body parts.
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In the current show of Zarina's collages at Luhring Augustine in New York, the cosmic and the granular perform an exquisite dance, inducing a hypnotic, devotional hymn to the universe, and all that exists within it.
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It's one of the few metal album covers that wouldn't look ridiculous in a museum next to a Blake watercolor, a Stefan Lochner devotional polyptych, Giovanni Di Paolo's John the Baptist series, or a Dürer woodwork.
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He took a mish-mash of Buddhist and Hindu precepts, stirred in a bit of Nostradamus, added a huge dollop of reverence for himself and charged acolytes their life's savings for devotional tapes, books and guidance.
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On this point Mr Varadkar may be at odds with some of his party colleagues; he has shown openness to proposals to remove devotional classes from the curriculum, while others in Fine Gael resist that idea.
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For years, my mom had pushed me to start every day with a devotional; on the way to school we'd read a Bible verse or an excerpt from whatever white southern pastor's book she'd just bought.
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The centerpiece of "Singularity" is "Everything Connected," a grand techno track that lasts more than ten minutes, building and disintegrating and eventually giving way to "Feel First Life," a wordless choral postlude that sounds distinctly devotional.
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Working from mug shots, the artist painted a series of devotional portraits of 65 Jeromes in Byzantine-style gold leaf, partly submerging each in tar based on the amount of time each Jerome spent in prison.
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By all accounts, Mr Cruz's Christianity is profound and sincere: Chip Roy, formerly his chief of staff, recalls visiting his condo to pick up his suit and spying a Bible and other devotional texts at his bedside.
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Ganavya has populated jazz standards with lyrics from Tamil poetry and songs of anticolonial resistance; the rendition of "Afro Blue" here features Oscar Brown's typical lyrics as well as a devotional poem by Kanhopatra, a Marathi saint.
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A room dedicated to artifacts from Tiffany's exhibit at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition includes devotional objects such as a gilt brass, glass, a jeweled altar cross, and a 12-armed bronze candelabrum adorned with glass cabochons.
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He said he frequently kissed people on the head, dating back to his days on Capitol Hill, describing the act of touching or kissing someone on the head as part of cheering staffers on and doing devotional blessings.
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Ukeles isn't as well known as she deserves to be, but fifty years of her near-devotional efforts to dignify labor that most people see as undignified—if they deign to see it at all—has been influential.
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Not only did Rhoda pick painting X for the book, it was probably then reformatted a bit, and then through the process of printing it changes, and then through my devotional process, or forgery, it changes once again.
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So it was not all that unusual when the head coach of the Waldron High School football team invited the young preacher and former team member to deliver a devotional on June 13 at a regional summer football camp.
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KARACHI, Pakistan — One of the most prominent Pakistani singers of Sufi devotional songs, Amjad Sabri, was killed by gunmen who fired into his car in Karachi on Wednesday, raising a new outcry over sectarian and extremist violence in Pakistan.
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And when she appeared with her band earlier this month at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, the set had a segue from "Rama Rama," one of Ms. Coltrane's devotional songs, to "Blue Nile," one of her cascading modal jazz compositions.
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And according to the writings of Mary Dzon, a medieval literature expert at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, many clerics even in that era may not have taught these stories, but permitted them to flourish as useful devotional fictions.
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Its strategy has been twofold: to provide a home to the upper echelon of stars — like Mr. Randhawa, Salman Khan and Deepika Padukone — and to flood the market with diverse content that includes regional language music and devotional songs.
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Their finds—a mixture of objects both homemade and mass-produced, profane and devotional—are sent to Washington, where the best join a trove of a hundred and thirty thousand political relics, including, for example, Abraham Lincoln's top hat.
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Singh, a burly, bearded man who has scripted and starred in his own films, commands a near-devotional following - he claims in the millions - in the northern states of Punjab and Haryana, where his Dera Sacha Sauda group is based.
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The killings are the latest attacks in the busy port city of 20 million people riven by political, ethnic and sectarian violence, where one of the most popular singers of Sufi devotional music, Amjad Sabri, was shot dead last month.
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Her kitchen counter, which used to be an altar, holds a cluster of devotional candles and a row of jars containing wild-blueberry leaves, collagen, lion's-mane mushroom, cordyceps, and other ingredients for a tea that Batiz drinks every morning.
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A small but robust minority of Irish secularists, including the lobby group Atheist Ireland, retorts that the current emphasis on devotional education infringes the rights of many non-religious people, as well as small religious groups like the Ahmadi Muslims.
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On Crete he could indulge an affinity with the Malian and Congolese carved wooden sculpture that inspired Western Modernism and could incorporate ideas from ancient Greek mythology with his everyday life and the simple yet devotional act of carving wood.
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With a near-devotional following from tens of millions of people who, like her, belong to the bottom rung of India's social hierarchy, Mayawati is emerging as Modi's chief challenger in a key state election set for early next year.
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A devotional is a curious thing: Somewhere between an almanac and an astrology column, it's both a systematic way of reading through the scriptures and a somewhat superstitious way of trying to align your days with the will of God.
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"Pence, who has dutifully stood by the President, mustering a devotional gaze rarely seen since the days of Nancy Reagan, serves as a daily reminder that the Constitution offers an alternative to Trump," Jane Mayer wrote early on in her story.
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Their Scripture-informed style of teaching (he calls it "devotional yoga") inspired him to open his yoga center in the Los Angeles area, where he said the centuries-old practice is treated more like a workout than a way of life.
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The other interesting thing that's happened [in contemporary Christianity] is this splitting of church into two types of services: the smaller devotional congregations and then the arena entertainment-based congregations, which are much more outgoing and communal, like Abundant Life.
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The first woman who is known to have published a book in English was a religious ecstatic: Julian of Norwich, whose name possibly comes from St. Julian's Church in Norwich, England, where, in the fourteenth century, she lived in devotional seclusion.
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Following a forceful speech by Choe Ryong Hae, one of Kim Jong Un's closest confidants, thousands of Pyongyang residents marched for hours in lockstep chanting devotional mantras to a smiling and seemingly relaxed Kim Jong Un, seated in a balcony high above.
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When they spot security forces trying to enter the area, residents say they rush to a mosque and sound the alarm by playing a devotional song calling for people to "stand against illegal occupation", or by issuing an alert over the loudspeaker.
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The "Sleeping Young Saint John with Elizabeth and Zachariah" (1670s) almost turns a devotional scene into a genre painting with the toddler John the Baptist sacked out on some red drapery, his reed cross falling out of his fingers as he sleeps.
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So for every middlebrow masterpiece like Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, there were crates of strange birds like Richard and Linda Thompson's devotional Sufi folk collection Pour Down Like Silver, and non-commercial fare like Gene Clark's maximalist No Other.
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The reference to Sufi enlightenment and Hindu devotional Bhakti is explored though forms created from female hair as well as wings choreographed as particle systems that function as a connecting tissue while carrying the theme of strife and the struggle for truth.
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It is striking that remarkable new ideas surfaced in Hinduism during the period of Muslim rule, such as those developed by its many devotional sects, which enriched the religion and gave it a form that is currently observed by some Hindu devotees.
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The idea of Krishna consciousness, that the material world is temporary and that people could attain high spiritual development through devotional service to the deity Krishna, dovetailed easily with the city's counterculture scene, according to Burke Rochford, a religion professor at Middlebury College.
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Instead, religious practice (rituals, devotional activities, songs, prayer and story) manage our emotions, giving us opportunities to express care for each other in grief, providing us with the alleviation of stress and anxiety, or giving us direction and an outlet for rage.
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Paired with an exhibition of 16th-century miniature boxwood carvings of biblical scenes, this concert, featuring a Boston early-music group and the singer Anne Azéma, explores personal devotional music of the early Renaissance, including works by Josquin, Senfl and Clemens non Papa.
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In one video An In 'Faux' Mercial, Garner appears as both Gadget Girl and Gadget Guy, wearing headphones meant to make a personal statement, such as Barbie headphones for convicted pedophiles, bread loaf headphones for the gluten-friendly and "hear no evil" devotional hands.
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Dr. Luber, the show's co-organizer, said that the collection she put together, along with chief curator Dr. William Keyse Rudolph, is rooted in Gothic Spain and has devotional works that reflect the dominance of the Catholic Church at the end of the Middle Ages.
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These little devotional works depict sudden violence and racking illness, but also divine intercession; one gives thanks to the Virgin of Talpa for freeing a child from prison, another praises the Holy Trinity for sparing the life of a man crushed by a car.
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On the garden terrace, A.S.T.R.A.L.O.R.A.C.L.E.S, an itinerant artist group that performs psychic readings and healing rituals, will arrange ceremonial objects, scents, and elixirs to channel the multiverse and serve as a backdrop to the live devotional music of ambient singer and composer Ana Roxanne.
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Fuji was a devotional place to which Hokusai attached great religious significance; his artistic endeavors visible in these images were intrinsically bound with his spiritual goals — to see the divine as present in every element in the physical world — and so commercial success was unimportant.
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"When the Christian blogosphere was mostly pastors' musings on one hand and women's devotional 'encouragement' on the other, Rachel wrote confidently that her mind was made to know God," wrote Katelyn Beaty, who co-founded a women's blog at the evangelical magazine Christianity Today in 2009.
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Ginger Gaines-Cirelli of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington hosted the event after Bill Shillady, Clinton's longtime spiritual adviser, bowed out of the event after he admitted to plagiarizing aspects of a book he wrote about the daily devotional he sent Clinton during the campaign.
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But the four young dancers — Luca Calderinia, Mattia Maiotti, Jenny Mattaioli and Elia Pangaro — threw themselves into the movement with a devotional focus and drive, bringing a subtly spiritual dimension to Mr. Varjavandi's secular blend of hip-hop, house, popping, vogueing and that catchall genre, contemporary.
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But as my distant cousin explained at a gathering of my Croatian-American family in Pittsburgh in 1998, the first year that Croatia unexpectedly stormed the soccer world, her garage had been repurposed by her father as a devotional museum to the Croatian soccer player Zvonimir Boban.
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Stroll through the lanes of Fort Kochi with stops at David Hall Art Gallery, housed in an old Dutch house where you'll find everything from exhibitions by global artists to book readings to Sufi devotional music, and Kashi Art Cafe, a gallery-cafe that supports emerging artists.
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"My Utmost: A Devotional Memoir" tells the story of Chambers's intellectual and spiritual formation as it follows Halford's drift from the Dallas girl who had loved lines like "Think of the healing and far-flung rivers nursing themselves in our souls!" to a believing yet anchorless adult.
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