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Let’s replace Broadway with a bunch of rinks—and ask Stanley Cup hockey teams to send us all into the riveted rapture.

She wrote, “I was completely inhabiting my body. It was an entirely unfamiliar freedom, bodily freedom, rapture.”

“God wants to rescue the Christians out of the world before what is coming comes,” Mhlakela said, adding that September’s rapture would be “the final one.”

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Hearing that performance live left me in a state of rapture.

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His falsetto found new registers of rapture and longing.

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