Lecture and Music Thursday July 11 at 7:00 pm
The Grateful Dead informed the spirituality of a sub-culture in the USA and Canada. God figures in diverse ways within the lyrical content of the corpus of the Dead… from the playful Prankster God of “One More Saturday Night,” who created earth because God wanted to have “a big old party,” to the beautiful presentation of grace than in “Attics of My Life” in which we find: “When there was no dream of mine, You dreamed of me.” Rev Steve will explore a few songs at length and show how the Dead’s theological work spans everything from the sublime and heart-breaking to the goofy and impish, because “…sometimes you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right…”