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Making Music Singable

This essay is adapted from Neal’s book, How to Hit the Ground Running: A Quick-start Guide for Congregations with New Leadership, Revised, scheduled for...

Coleridge: The Leper of Abercuawg, Marilynne Robinson’s Genesis, and Anglo-Saxon liturgical books

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Music Compared to the music of Haydn and Mozart, that of Dieterich Buxtehude...

Coleridge: Scorsese’s Jesus film, the Erasmian Quixote, and ecstatic poetry

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Contemporary Art Mark K. Spencer reviews Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts...

Coleridge: Stained-Glass Pioneers, Christian Wiman against Despair, and Nick Cave’s Yearning

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Art Pending lectures include, on February 8 in London, “Balthazar: The Third Man...

Hodie: A Marriage of Poetry and Music

One of the bits of personal spiritual hygiene that I have practiced for several years is, sometime during the Twelve Days of Christmas, to...

Handel’s Messiah and the Revelation of Christ

I grew up with music everywhere. I began playing violin at the age of 5, and sang in quite a good church choir as early...

Coleridge: Bill Watterson’s Mysteries, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nativity play, and Milton’s rebellion

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Art and Architecture Is art a secular invention? Matthew Milliner tests the theory...

Coleridge: Catholic Jon Fosse’s Nobel, Bill Watterson’s Mysteries, and Sufjan Stevens’s Faith

Coleridge is a monthly digest of noteworthy items in theology and the arts. Art History In Washington, D.C., the Catholic Art Institute will host a Christmas...

Kneel Down and Fight

Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1990s was, like so many other Southern cities, struggling to find an identity and possessing a hollowed-out urban core before...

Coleridge: Christina Rossetti’s Anglo-Catholicism, Chichester’s new workshop for liturgical art, and Cormac McCarthy’s contemptus mundi

Coleridge is a monthly digest of significant developments in theology and the arts. Music In “Spiritual Renewal and Modern Choral Music,” Michael De Sapio praises the...

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