Billy Joe Shaver and Music for the Land of Nod John Mason Lock November 24, 2020 Commentary, Music, The Episcopal Church By John Mason Lock With the political morass we've been enduring during this election cycle and the pressures of leading a church in a pandemic, I was about a week late in learning of the passing of one of m... Read More...
The Show Goes On Guest Contributor September 30, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Music, The Episcopal Church By Jonathan Jameson I’ve spent a large portion of the last eighteen years of my life traveling from town to town and playing songs to groups of people gathered in dimly-lit clubs. Somewhere along the way I b... Read More...
Of Hymns and Missionaries Bishop Daniel Martins February 4, 2020 Commentary, Contributors, Ministry, Music, The Episcopal Church By Daniel Martins One of the spiritual practices in which I regularly engage is to sit down at a piano or organ keyboard with a hymnal and just play through hymns, allowing myself ample opportunity to reflec... Read More...
The Twelfth Day of Christmas Jean Meade January 5, 2020 Commentary, Contributors, Music, The Episcopal Church On the Eve of Epiphany, the Twelfth Day of Christmas, why not gather up in gratitude all the abundance of love, joy and celebration that our Christmas faith has bestowed upon us and, wherever we live, think of some ways to take to the streets and share it with the world?
Christmas Music Worth Your Time Benjamin Guyer December 24, 2019 Commentary, Contributors, Music, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church The following may not quite enable the musical equivalent of a monastic flight from the forced saccharine madness that blares from too many speakers in public places, but each album will help create spaces of Christian contemplation and reflection during the Christmas season.
Springsteen, Belonging, and Religion in Blinded by the Light Neil Dhingra September 11, 2019 Commentary, Movies, Music, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church To be sure, Springsteenism is an ambiguous religiosity. Springsteen, as Roops pronounces, “knows everything you’ve ever felt … and he can describe it better for you.” His music allows one to see the depth and profundity in ordinary life — to see even father-son conflict as “something as old as time,” as Manzoor says, and to respond with empathy. Springsteen himself is a role model of uncommon decency.
Turn It Up to Eleven: Holy Week Music from Andrew Peterson Sarah Puryear April 18, 2019 Music, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church Resurrection Letters by Andrew Peterson seeks to draw the listener into the events at the heart of the Christian faith.
What’s Free? Black Freedom, the Gospel of Jesus, and Its Competitors Esau McCaulley February 19, 2019 ACNA, Music, Reviews & Culture Black freedom will come through an open-eyed engagement with the powers of this world with the sure confidence that God is with us because our cause is just.
