| Sound Theology |
Last week I wrote about unaccompanied solos and how even one person can make harmony when the music is right. Today the music focuses on duets. There are many ways to make music with more than one performer: two of the same instrument (the work for two violas), two...
| Open Table |
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee How would you react to the news that an unpublished book by a favorite author had been found and was going to be released to the public soon? Would you be jubilant, perform a happy dance around the living room, then message family and...
| The Commons
Call to Worship: God is . . . So high, can’t get over HimGod is . . . So low, can’t get under HimGod is . . . So wide, can’t get ‘round HimGotta go in through the door. —African-American spiritual Benediction: Dance, dance, wherever you may beFor ‘I am… To...
| The Commons
Maybe we aren’t hearing Jesus speak because we’re not serious about hearing Jesus speak, just going through the motions. “A man went to church with an angel as his guide. Every seat in the church was filled, but there was something strange about the service. The...
| The Commons
All ideas come from someplace else. Take “Fantasia.” “Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) wrote about an apprentice who copied a sorcerer’s spell, but didn’t quite get it right. Using the spell, he charged his broom to replace him in the drudgeries of apprenticeship,...
