In Brecht's play Galileo, the great astronomer set forth into a world dominated by a mighty church and an authoritarian power: "The cities are narrow and so are the brains," he declared recklessly.
The peak is reached when a mighty church organ plays over the trance-like, deep house beats and I imagine viewing a panorama that renders me speechless except for a single "Wow!" In contrast, Judy Collins sings of the forbidding Greenland shores – a beautifully austere terrain.
Before his first weekly audience of 2019 on Wednesday, the man atop a once-mighty church, the one that has faced an unprecedented reckoning over systemic sexual abuse this past year, appeared to accomplish something remarkable: He spun a soccer ball on his finger for three seconds.
Justin, the uncle, was a rude and illiterate soldier; Justinian, the nephew, was a cultivated gentleman, adept at theology, a mighty builder of churches, and a sponsor of the codification of Roman law.
And that was a mighty thing, with the church and the state, good things though they were, having a claw-like grip on the community.
The church has been a mighty force for justice in the history of the world.
But the church around them is a mighty item, its octagonal tower giving way to chapels fanning out like a spinning-plates trick.
When the boat left the East River pier at Third Street at 9 40 a.m., a church band on board played, "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God".
"We'll be rattling the subways," said Owen Burdick, the church's director of music, as he listened to a mighty crescendo in an early test of an innovative digital organ, just built and installed there by Marshall & Ogletree of Needham Heights, Mass.
12 Entering the church suddenly, they slew the guards there and with a mighty cry summoned the Samaritans in the city.
A mighty marble allegory.
