The featured work this week was “lost,” (actually, unknown) for almost 230 years. Austrian composer and violinist Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber was born in 1644, and he revolutionized the playing of the violin. His most well-known work was not discovered until 1905!...
In February, scientists reported evidence of gravitational waves – the result of an ancient collision of two black holes – and they sound like … wait for it … a human heartbeat. One of the biggest break-throughs in scientific enquiry has a sound. And it sounds like...
Spring is in full swing in the Pacific Northwest. Rhododendrons and lilacs are blooming, hostas are stretching their shoots up like sentinels, and the trees are shedding enough pollen to cover sidewalks with a gentle yellow glow. But the most striking change over the...
Not many artists, of any kind, have explicitly tackled the challenge of depicting the resurrection. Visual art, sculpture, music, poetry, prose, dance, theatre … there are expressions of the mystery of the imagined life after death in each of these genres, but...
As we journeyed through Holy Week and into the mystery of Easter, we surrounded ourselves with music … and silence … and reflection. This week we begin the longest season of the Christian Year – 50 days of rejoicing! The greatest celebration of the greatest story,...
In the next seven days we will experience the most theologically rich, densely packed, emotionally exhausting week of the Christian year (not to mention physically exhausting for those involved in these services). From Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday, the lectionary...
