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How Music works in Worship?
Recently my friend Bruce Reyes-Chow suggested I blog “How does music touch your soul?” He left it pretty broad so I’ll have some fun with this. I’m going to unpack the use of music in worship and take it from a systems approach rather than a “everyone should sing because the bible includes songs and [...]
Advent songs of longing
Is it poor form to be sad that Advent is drawing to a close? Somehow the more maudlin honesty about longing, with the cooler air (though Atlanta has been uncharacteristically warm this December) and the bare trees invites me to a place of peace and deep beauty more than any other of the year. Not to be [...]
structure verses interaction, is this a fair dichotomy?
For year I’ve been having conversations with friend, blogging-preacher-mom MaryAnn McKibben Dana, about worship. We were in seminary together and led many an alternative approach to preaching and liturgy. But now she is serving in a traditional context. Recently I asked her to hit me up with a question or two for this blog. She writes: My [...]
