The 23rd Psalm is the familiarity of promises that we can sink into. The dark valley is never the end of the story, for a table awaits, along with the goodness and mercy that calls us to life everlasting. Our Easter journey this week leads us beside still waters and...
Easter is a season for good reasons. If your church has already moved on, or back, or around to your “life as usual,” you’re doing it wrong. Everything is changed. Everything is different after the resurrection. The season of Easter reminds us, week by week, that...
Sometimes, (riffing on the famously mis-quoted line made popular in the movie Amadeus), there are just too many words (notes!). For the season of Easter, Sound Theology will give you simply the Psalm for the day (from the Revised Common Lectionary), possibly a hymn...
Psalm 118: 1-2, 14-17, 22-24 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. Let Israel say: “His love endures forever.” The Lord is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the...
During the past six weeks of listening to ensembles and focusing on the characteristics of ensemble, I have also been mulling over the first chapter of Colossians, especially verse 17: He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together. This...
Even the best ensembles, when they get to a certain size, need the help of a conductor. Quartets and Quintets are small enough that the musicians have the essential ability to see each other’s faces. They can look directly at each other, hear each other’s breathing,...
