My Story About Christianity (WIMTM 10)
For the past 18 months I have been involved in a process toward being a Commissioned Minister of the United Church of Christ, through music. In June 2016, I present…
For the past 18 months I have been involved in a process toward being a Commissioned Minister of the United Church of Christ, through music. In June 2016, I present…
“For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.” Another clause in the Lord’s Prayer which requires me to break it down into ordinary speech if I’m…
“And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil” How is it that “temptation” and “evil” end up in the same clause, here? On a daily basis, I…
“Give us this daily our daily bread.” Daily bread. What a throw-away line. To me, it’s fathomable that if The Lord’s Prayer were brought to an editor’s desk in modern-day…
I participated in a roundtable discussion on “Saving the World Through Singing” at the American Choral Directors Association Eastern Division‘s biannual conference in February 2016. The following is a recollection of…
“Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” When I was fresh out of grad school, I gave a sermon on Jesus’ second coming.…
“Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name” A church musician considers the Bible in terms of lyrics of hymns and anthems, not simply as spoken verses to…
It occurred to me at one point this Advent that I’ve never known what Christmas is like without the church being a vital part of it. We hear about the…
I am not having a good day. It started out good, I suppose, though particularly commonly. Roll out of bed a few minutes before the alarm; ponder the day during…
This post is the working copy of a sermon I gave at Edwards Church, UCC in Framingham, MA on June 7, 2015. The live version deviates a bit, in that…