Advanced Study of the psalmody, hymnody, and worship traditions of the Church, practical exercises in the use of the hymn, planning and conducting various types of services, and field trips.
The place of worship is the gurdwara, the chief example being the Harimandir, which was founded by Guru Arjun, several times destroyed, and finally rebuilt by Ranjit Singh.
And in fact, our admiration for the comically gifted is relatively new and not very well-founded, says Rod Martin, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario.
But the phenomenon is generally thought to be exaggerated there: a toxic consequence of Confucian respect for authority and an academic system borrowed lock, stock and barrel from 19th-century Germany.
During that season within a season, when hope tails off, spinning into the still-early darkness, I return to the music of the cult favorite singer-songwriter Connie Converse.
But the answer is not to turn inward, to retreat into competing factions, distrusting those who don't look like… look like you, or worship the way you do, or don't get their news from the same sources you do.