Not everything has to be loud! Vary your tone. Use inflections. Sometimes even vary your speed. It’s not interesting to hear 20 minutes of monotone. Make it conversational. Let your voice tell the story. To access this post, you must purchase Standard Membership,...
Bach’s Unaccompanied Cello Suites — I hear a swoon even at the mention of the work – is a series of six suites, each with six movements, for solo cello. One musician. One instrument. One performance space. Manifold echoes. A significant part of Bach’s...
ME and WE God’s New Social Gospel by Leonard Sweet ME and WE: God’s New Social Gospel by Leonard Sweet is a lively and lovely introduction to a re-imagined, metaphorically rich present/future church. This church, Sweet writes, must learn how to face three of the...
One wonders what was the back-story behind this legislation published in 1631 by the Virginia House of Burgesses: “Ministers shall not give themselves to excess in drinking or riot, spending their time idly by day or night, playing at dice, cards or any other unlawful...
“Walking now with joy and not with fear, in a clear, steady sight of things eternal, we shall look on pleasure, wealth, praise, all things of earth, as bubbles upon the water, counting nothing important, nothing desirable, nothing worth a deliberate thought, but only...
