Hymns From the Gathering Church
More than a year ago the Gathering Church embarked on a creative musical project. Having dabbled in recorded music (a completed Advent EP used…
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A Theology of Song
The availability of recorded music has rendered music and song so ubiquitous that the intrinsically ephemeral nature of this art form, considered by Etienne Gilson…
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Review: Resonant Witness
Jeremy S. Begbie & Steven R. Guthrie (eds), Resonant Witness: Conversations Between Music and Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011). The aim of this roughly…
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Review: Pay the Musick by The King/Cave Project
James Cave and Ewan King are not names with which I was familiar before hearing their recent album, Pay the Musick. That isn’t to…
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Learning in a Musical Key: A Review
James McCullough reviews Lisa M. Hess’s book Learning in a Musical Key: Insight for Theology in Performative Mode (Pickwick, 2011).
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Registration Open for Music and Transcendence Conference, Cambridge, UK
Registration is now open for a one-day inter-disciplinary conference on Music and Transcendence to be held in Cambridge, UK on 29 November 2011. All…
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Violence, Lament, Redemption: A Composer’s Journey
One day in 1980, I opened the door of my house in my quiet little town in El Salvador to find commotion in the…
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A Lesson from The Book of Mormon
“I love this show. It has a beautiful heart.” – Baz Bamigboye, The London Daily Mail Last month controversial musical The Book of Mormon…
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Cardiphonia: Songs for Pentecost
Last fall Cardiphonia sponsored the first of what will be a series of song collections focused around gospel themes for congregational song. This week they…
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