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September 2022

September 12, 2022
"There are a lot of hymns that are terrible." That's a pat answer used by...

April 2022

April 21, 2022
I get comments like this all the time. The article misses the main point. In...

February 2022

February 21, 2022
Jon Graham Daker, son, brother, faithful Christian, and accidental internet star, reportedly passed away yesterday,...

January 2022

January 21, 2022
I know you're tired. Run down. Sad. Fed up. Angry, even. I don't blame you...
January 12, 2022
The Cult of Cafeteria Worship I'm terrified that catering to individual aesthetic preferences in worship...
January 11, 2022
There’s a term that people like to throw around at church when they talk about...
January 09, 2022
After fighting the worship wars for a generation, evangelical churches first tried something they called...
January 08, 2022
Them: I like traditional worship, but I've got kids, so, you know... Me: No, I...
January 07, 2022
A guest post by Miguel Ruiz. I can’t help but think I am not alone...
January 06, 2022
A guest post from Michael Dodaro. "Dignified Protestants now say that truth is relative. Evangelicals...
January 05, 2022
It's true that with enough money and marketing you can attract people, at least for...

December 2021

December 30, 2021
Congregational singing is dead, and we have killed it. If it wasn't dead before Covidtide,...
December 22, 2021
What Do You Think About Livestreamed Worship? I find the question difficult to answer because...
December 20, 2021
There are lots of ways in which one could conceivably convince themselves that they were...

July 2021

July 07, 2021
During Covidtide, my professional project has been improving my organ playing. So I found me...

June 2021

June 10, 2021
In April of 2005 I was busy waiting tables and preparing to finish my undergraduate...
June 07, 2021
I was going to call this post "How to Make a Beautiful Hymn Ugly," but...
June 05, 2021
I get too many emails. I don't mind the personal ones. It's the stuff I...
June 04, 2021
If you've read much of what I've written over the past few years, you might...

May 2021

May 13, 2021
Seeing that we have a great High Priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus...
May 07, 2021
One of the problems endemic to Christian worship today is the assumption that forms don't...

April 2021

April 30, 2021
Christians who have grown up in evangelical churches, like I did, often have a great...

January 2021

January 27, 2021
I've written before about the tragedy of allowing screens into our sanctuaries, but a conversation...
January 25, 2021
When I begin a new church post, I like to ask my new colleagues what...
January 06, 2021
Here's a delightful little Epiphany hymn for you. The text is by Reginald Heber, the...
January 04, 2021
Poet Christopher Wordsworth on his own text: "[It is a] recapitulation of the successive manifestations...
January 03, 2021
Here's a little gem for the upcoming Epiphany. According to J.R. Watson: "Its simplicity of...
January 02, 2021
Here's a friendly PSA from Ponder Anew: It's still Christmas. It's Christmas all the way...
January 01, 2021
Here's an inspired text by Timothy Dudley-Smith that reinforces the faithfulness of God in spite...

December 2020

December 31, 2020
Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts     that peoples labor only for fire,...
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