Tip-Off #47 - Hard to Hear

"Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still small voice of calm!" - American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

James Ensor, Christ’s Entry into Brussels (1888), oil on canvas, 8 ft 4 in × 14 ft 2 in, the Getty. In this scene of Christ entering contemporary Brussels in a Mardi Gras parade, Ensor took on religion, politics, and art— a serious parody of Palm Sunday and Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.

The words of the hymn are from a long narrative poem, "The Brewing of…