The psychologist Erik Erikson writes of how in the first stage of our development the primary concern is basic trust…
Musicians have a tendency to pick apart songs. You could say we dissect them but that is too clinical a…
From my May 12, 2019 Music Corner bulletin column Today’s Psalm 100:1-2 We are God’s people, the sheep of his…
Trees are constantly growing. When a limb is cut off the tree grows around the cut to seal the wound…
Slang for therapist, shrink is an intriguing word; rather it is a fascinating image. One story goes that it arose…
Singing into a microphone or playing in front of a congregation can be intimidating. From personal experience and many conversations…
The arts, including music, are the soul’s languages. Music connects with us (and connects us) because it speaks the soul’s…
…we no more own art by buying it than we own nature by buying land.
In Mark 9:36 Jesus tells the disciples the one who leads must be “the servant of all.” An accompanist leads…
When you a sing near a cello, it vibrates. If you sing the pitch of one of its strings, it…
In divine moments, by the Holy Spirit, nature’s beauty uncloses us. Tightly wrapped, we are unbound
Mark 1:15 says “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the…
We celebrate that God was born into the world–that God took human form. So, what does this mean? This deceptively…
Why does Music have such an effect on us? Where does it come from? In the beginning, there was rhythm.…
The spaces we dwell in have a powerful effect on us. Moving from our parking lot toward the church we…
What if we are so much of creation that the gift of free will, given in love, had consequences for…
Of course we’re not talking literally “up.” That would lead to all sorts of absurdities. We’re speaking metaphorically, which is…
“Perhaps ideas are the single most precious miracle in human existence. For ideas determine our goals of action, our styles…
While we may imagine memory as the collection and recall of facts, compared with technologies we create to help us…
One of the great benefits of communal worship is that witnessing the expressions of faith of our brothers and sisters…
In abstracting we imagine ourselves as outside of nature looking in and Forgetting the “as” we are left alienated and…
Consider the character of spiritual experience and what it has in common with the experience of music. Spiritual experiences often…
At the core of being a musician is the deep desire to experience and express what goes beyond words. When…
There are moments in a musician’s life – defining performances that touch so deeply that they effect a fundamental shift…
For a creative person, what could be is as tangible, if not more real than what is. A piece of…