The public radio program of sacred music, With Heart and Voice, is broadcasting alternate settings of familiar hymns this weekend. Public Radio Fan has a listing of days and times of the program’s broadcast, along with links to listen to the audio feed from various radio stations. One of the hymns is David Ashley White‘s [...]
In one of my classes this semester, we were assigned Jaroslav Pelikan’s Fools for Christ. Pelikan looks through the eyes of six historical figures to see the True, the Good and the Beautiful in relation to the Holy. In the area of Beauty, he presents Friedrich Nietzsche as his anti-hero – futilely seeking the Holy [...]
dis·con·so·late |disˈkänsəlit| adjective without consolation or comfort; unhappy : he’d met the man’s disconsolate widow. From the Oxford American Dictionary. Sometimes the things that should be most obvious to me aren’t. Take, for example, the hymn “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy”. One Sunday at the end of last summer, we sang this hymn at [...]
Last summer, I read Worship by the Book, a collection of essays on Christian worship edited by D.A. Carson. The four chapters are written by Carson, Mark Ashton, R. Kent Hughes and Tim Keller. While I would have supposed that the Keller chapter would have resonated with me more than the others due to our [...]
