4'33" and liturgical music

January 29, 2017

Cage, Satie, and music as furniture

4'33" and the liturgy

January 28, 2017

On silence and clarity

The tenth of November

November 14, 2016

Looking for light in dark days

Processions, litanies, entrances, and their music

November 4, 2016

Proper forms and purposes

Medd on the Eucharist

October 19, 2016

Helpful yet challenging commentary from Blunt’s Annotated Prayer Book

O Lord, arise, help us

September 11, 2016

The Supplication and September 11

Letter and Spirit

August 28, 2016

Orality, literacy, the word, and the Word

Prayer Book revision: Service of Light

July 24, 2016

Thoughts on the ritual and musical provisions for this attractive ceremony

What is the Book of Common Prayer?

July 13, 2016

The title page tells us what it is and has been, and prompts us to ask what it should and will be

‘Independence’ Day

July 4, 2016

Church, State, land, people

Juneteenth

June 19, 2016

Equality, unity, true identity, belonging, and healing is already being fulfilled in Christ

‘Culturally relevant’ liturgy

May 24, 2016

Tradition, not culture at large, is concentrated and rehearsed in the liturgy

Hymns of Christopher Wordsworth

April 18, 2016

A doxological, doctrinal, ecclesial, and liturgical companion to the Prayer Book

Tenebrae

March 23, 2016

Matins and Lauds of the Triduum

Crux fidelis

March 21, 2016

Considering Fortunatus’s great hymn on the Cross

Old 113th and simple chant

March 7, 2016

A venerable Reformation tune points the way to more authentically liturgical music

My lovely one

February 29, 2016

The poetry of Edward Taylor, and Finzi’s setting of same

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

January 18, 2016

The Hymnal version is far from the original – perhaps to its, and our, benefit

On fixing the date of Easter

January 16, 2016

A proposed set and shared date for Easter raises some interesting questions

A new Nativity

December 21, 2015

Seeing the Incarnation here and now