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38.2—Mar/Apr, 2025
The Whole Biblical Story in Handel’s Messiah, Oftentimes Missed
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
The Church Culture That Made His Musical Genius Flourish
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
Apprehending the Music of Being
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
Faithfulness in a Time of Trouble
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
on Scottish Gaelic & the End of All Good Things
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
A Tale Told in Music
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
Praise Everlasting, Rest Eternal
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
Antonín Dvořák's Mass in D Major
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
“His Eye Is on the Sparrow”
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
The Hymn for the Vespers of Epiphany, Hostis Herodes impie
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
“Three Kings” Music
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
“O Father All Creating” by John Ellerton (1876)
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
George Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
on the Purpose of Salvation According to Jesus & Paul
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
The Church with Psalms Must Shout
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
The Light of Life Oratorio by Edward Elgar
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
On the Magnificat
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
on God's World Through the Ears of a Movie Sound Editor
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
Saint Anatolius's Fierce Was the Wild Billow
34.3—May/June, 2021
Handel's Chandos Anthems
34.3—May/June, 2021
"Pleasant Are Thy Courts Above" by Henry Francis Lyte (1834
34.2—March/April, 2021
Bach's St. John Passion by the Bach Collegium Japan
33.5—September/October, 2020
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
33.4—July/August, 2020
Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)
33.3—May/June, 2020
Bach's Cantata BWV 106, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbesteZeit (God's time is the very best time)
33.2—March/April, 2020
With Mary & a Cloud of Witnesses
Reflecting on Songs for Holy Week
33.1—January/February, 2020
33.1—January/February, 2020
33.1—January/February, 2020
On the Work and Legacy of Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
32.6—November/December, 2019
Christian Faith & Formation in Rural Alabama
32.5—September/October, 2019
Charles Villiers Stanford's Gifts
Ancient Hymns Re-imagined by a Beloved Irish Composer
32.4—July/August, 2019
Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee
32.4—July/August, 2019
Hans Leo Hassler's Musical Corpus Communicates the "Divine Dance"
32.3—May/June, 2019
John Sheppard, Lost Music of the Sixteenth Century, and Love Made Audible
32.3—May/June, 2019
The Liturgy of the Hours
32.2—March/April, 2019
See, the Lord Ascends in Triumph
32.2—March/April, 2019
Worship is a Discipline that Demands a Well of Aesthetic Resource
32.2—March/April, 2019
The Spiritual & Sacramental Choir of the Body of Christ
31.6—November/December, 2018
Three Cantatas for Thoughtful Advent Reflection
31.5—September/October, 2018
Musical Counterpoint as an Analogy to the Trinitarian Life
31.5—September/October, 2018
O Father All Creating
31.5—September/October, 2018
on Church Music as Facilitating Worship
31.3—May/June, 2018
Music is More Than Pleasurable Sound—It Points Us to a Deeper Order
31.3—May/June, 2018
This Is the Hour of Banquet and of Song
31.2—March/April, 2018
Musical Borrowings & Trinitarian Echoes
31.1—January/February, 2018
At Play in the House of the Lord
The Spiritual Qualities of Mozart
31.1—January/February, 2018
Victis sibi cognomina
31.1—January/February, 2018
How Polyphony & the Cantus Firmus Can Illuminate Integrity
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
Familiar Christmas Hymns and More from Ralph Vaughan Williams—"Christian Agnostic"
25.2—March/April, 2012
Fast & See That the Lord Is Good
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