In addition to classroom and liturgical contexts, religious educators can and do facilitate playing in everyday life with greater intention. A dancer is drawn to investigate music she hears within a deserted university chapel, where a man unknown to her is improvising on the piano. They have no shared history, but the chapel is holy place, traditionally a safe place. She is a religious educator who has used movement improvisation in her teaching and is visiting the campus. He is a musician and an arborist taking a break from his job. Without introductions, she begins to dance to his music, and
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