Denali

September 2, 2015

What’s in a name?

A hacktivist project proposal

August 28, 2015

Getting real with language

Magnificat and martyrdom

August 14, 2015

Commemorating and learning from a modern witness to the faith

I love thy kingdom, Lord

August 8, 2015

Church, Kingdom, and the earliest American hymn still in general use

The birth and death of St John the Baptist

July 12, 2015

The Forerunner and the Coming of the Lord

Laudato si’

June 28, 2015

The Bishop of Rome’s encyclical is welcome if inadequate

Veiled in flesh

May 10, 2015

Christ clothed in our flesh, and we clothed with Him

The wounded side of Christ II

April 12, 2015

Further thoughts on this rich image

Gloria in exELLCis?

April 11, 2015

A garbled Gloria betrays a misunderstanding of the nature of this text

Father, we thank thee who hast planted

April 10, 2015

A look at another fine Bland Tucker hymn based on an early Christian source

Pascha nostrum

April 10, 2015

Tracing the history of this Easter anthem

Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr

April 5, 2015

The origins of this Easter Gloria paraphrase, first sung on this date in 1523

We would see Jesus

March 28, 2015

Looking high and low for the divine Presence

...not to condemn mankind

March 15, 2015

The early Christian source of this fine Bland Tucker hymn

On the Way

March 8, 2015

Psalm 19 connects the creating, redeeming, and sustaining aspects of the divine

The Sacrifice of Praise

January 30, 2015

The full text and real import of Pierpoint’s ‘For the beauty of the earth’

Welcome to Church Music

January 28, 2015

A forthcoming book from Church Publishing is sadly riddled with half-truths and errors

Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand

January 10, 2015

We cannot create, destroy, or bring about, but rather only discover, the Kingdom

The Flight into Egypt

January 5, 2015

Christ’s coming into the world was and always is a threat to worldly power

Come, ye blessed of my Father

November 23, 2014

Seeking signs of the Kingdom in the pre-Advent season