{"id":6359,"date":"2015-06-28T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2015-06-28T06:01:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T10:01:52","slug":"cultural-moment-president-obama-sings-amazing-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2015\/06\/cultural-moment-president-obama-sings-amazing-grace.html","title":{"rendered":"Cultural moment: President Obama sings &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A 336-year-old hymn is amazingly relevant today.<\/strong> Carolyn Rossi Copeland, the executive producer of the new Broadway musical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkcitytheatre.com\/theaters\/nederlandertheater\/amazing-grace.php?gclid=CjwKEAjwtr6sBRDv7uzB492H9XISJADj6aqbr9TsOHfBcaXYn4YlpcgdxmVTUM_gbThufiUNzkqQAxoCAHnw_wcB\"><em>Amazing Grace<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0 emailed me &#8220;The president singing <em>Amazing Grace<\/em> was so affirming that our show is happening at the right moment.&#8221; Certainly, the world can use more of the sort of forgiveness and amazing grace the people of\u00a0 <span class=\"_dwd st s std\">Charleston&#8217;s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church<\/span> have shown in the face of horrific evil. They are a living example of the Bible verse &#8220;<em>Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good&#8221; <\/em>(Romans 12:21)<em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"President Obama sings Amazing Grace (C-SPAN)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IN05jVNBs64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em><strong>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. A 336-year-old hymn is amazingly relevant today. Carolyn Rossi Copeland, the executive producer of the new Broadway musical Amazing Grace,\u00a0 emailed me &#8220;The president singing Amazing Grace was so affirming that our show is happening at the right moment.&#8221; Certainly, the world can use&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cultural moment: President Obama sings &quot;Amazing Grace&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2015\/06\/cultural-moment-president-obama-sings-amazing-grace.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cultural moment: President Obama sings &quot;Amazing Grace&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 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