missiology
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 [...]
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 [...]
Two Christmas Poems
This Christmas here are two poems I’m returning to: “The Invisible Seen” —St. Athanasios (c. 298-373, trans by Scott Cairns) When our dull wits had so declined as to set us mid the squalor of the merely sensible creation, the Very God consented to become a body of His own, that He as one among [...]
