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While it has been described as an annual gathering of music, art, and dialogue on social justice and spirituality rooted in the Christian tradition, and many participants are progressive evangelicals and mainline Protestants who celebrate common messages of love and peace, nevertheless &#8220;we encourage people to have conversations,&#8221; says Reverend Rosa Lee Harden, a producer of the festival. She finds that sometimes people &#8220;who weren\u2019t raised in Christian families, who follow other faiths more deeply understand the message of Jesus than sometimes we do.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We encourage people to have conversations,&#8221; says Reverend Rosa Lee Harden, producer of the Wild Goose Festival. She finds that sometimes people &#8220;who weren\u2019t raised in Christian families, who follow other faiths more deeply understand the message of Jesus than sometimes we do.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/06\/27\/june-27-wild-goose-festival\/23444\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":23483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[727,17790,6955,5249,600,17690,17789,1285,9201],"class_list":["post-23444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-art","tag-gareth-higgins","tag-krista-tippett","tag-monasticism","tag-music","tag-north-carolina","tag-on-being","tag-social-justice","tag-vincent-harding","topics-culture-and-society","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-literature-and-the-arts","faith-christian"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>June 27, 2014 ~ Wild Goose Festival | June 27, 2014 | Religion &amp; 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