Harmonious Gospels: Symphony in (Year) B Guest Contributor February 18, 2021 ACNA, Bible, Commentary, Liturgy, Music By Jay Thomas As the season after Epiphany trudged through these long winter months before ceding its place to Lent, the Christmas season faded to an afterthought in the rearview mirror. The regular hum-drum... Read More...
Losses at the Holidays Guest Contributor December 22, 2020 Commentary, Music, The Episcopal Church By Marisa Crofts Some of us have lost family members. Some of us have lost jobs. All of us have lost something at some point this past year, whether that’s a favorite hobby or just time with friends. Goin... Read More...
Being Distracted by the Right Things Sam Keyes November 27, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Music, Roman Catholic Church By Sam Keyes Three times now in an introductory course on sacraments and liturgy, I’ve asked students to reflect on a playlist of Church music that I assembled for them. To do such a thing at all challenges ... Read More...
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.
