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The Clark Sisters recorded a version of "Balm in Gilead" in 1986. The "balm in Gilead" references the Old Testament, particularly Jeremiah 8:22, but the spiritual's lyrics focus on the New Testament concept of salvation through Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament, the balm of Gilead is a healing compound, symbolizing spiritual medicine for ...
Richard Smallwood (born November 30, 1948, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American gospel artist who formed The Richard Smallwood Singers in 1977 in Washington, D.C.
Balm of Gilead was a rare perfume used medicinally that was mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and named for the region of Gilead, where it was produced. The expression stems from William Tyndale's language in the King James Bible of 1611 and has come to signify a universal cure in figurative speech. The tree or shrub producing the balm is commonly ...
T. Schreiber Studio's company of Balm in Gilead, with playwright Lanford Wilson (seated center) In 2010, the play returned to off-off Broadway in a revival by the T. Schreiber Studio company. [10] The revival, under the direction of associate artistic director, Peter Jensen, experienced widespread critical and audience acclaim.
Balm in Gilead, a 1965 play by Lanford Wilson; Balm in Gilead, a 1988 biography of Margaret Morgan Lawrence "There Is a Balm in Gilead", a traditional African American spiritual song, including a list of recordings; Balm in Gilead, by Rickie Lee Jones (2009)
Gilead is an epistolary novel, as the entire narrative is a single, continuing, albeit episodic, document, written on several occasions in a form combining a journal and a memoir. It comprises the fictional autobiography of John Ames, an elderly, white Congregationalist pastor in the small, secluded town of Gilead, Iowa (also fictional), who ...
Here's a map of Gilead to reference when you're watching 'The Handmaid's Tale.'
Pernessa C. Seele (born October 15, 1954) is an American immunologist and interfaith public health activist. Seele is the CEO and founder of Balm in Gilead, Inc., a religious-based organization that provides support to people with AIDS and their families, as well as working for prevention of HIV and AIDS.