Any split in the Body of Christ is deeply tragic. And now 2% of ELCA congregations are leaving because of certain culture-war disputes.
Archive for category Music: Hymns
Lutheran split
Aug 29
Faith Alive Christian Resources and the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship are currently working on a Psalter which will include multiple settings of each psalm.
Hymn Society, Thursday close
Jul 16
The Hymn Society reports on current hymnological research, and it also fosters further research.
Birmingham is a city that shares its scars. Many conference attendees had the opportunity to visit (and sing at) Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, the site of a 1963 bombing that killed four young girls. The church was rebuilt, including a gift from Wales of a stained glass window that depicts a Black Christ, and functions both as church and as landmark today. (An image of the window is available online here.)
Our Wednesday evening hymn festival [MORE...]
Hymn Society, Wednesday
Jul 14
Morning prayer this week has been led by the team of Rev. Lia Scholl (a pastor shepherding a Mennonite church) and Cantor Jessica Roskin, who serves the congregation of Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham. Cantor Roskin has been leading us through a variety of songs in English and Hebrew — some ancient folk songs, some chants, some more recently composed pieces. I’ve been captivated by their beauty and I’m getting better at reading transliterated Hebrew.
Tuesday evening’s [MORE...]
Greetings from Samford University in Birmingham, AL, the site of the 2010 annual conference of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada.
The bewildering variety of the medieval liturgy need not scare us. It’s not necessarily a model for how things should be now.
To Sing or Not to Sing
Apr 13
“The job of singing belongs primarily to the schola and the cantor, not the people” ??
Catholic Music Throughout the Ages
Subtitle: Balancing the Needs of a Worshipping Church
Edward Schaefer MSM DMA
Hillenbrand Books, an imprint of Liturgy Training Publications and the Liturgical Institute of the University of St Mary of the Lake (Mundelein Seminary)
xii + 204 + 54 pages of bibliography, appendices and indexes.
ISBN 978-1-59525-020-9, $28.00, available in the UK from Gracewing Publishing, £20.00
Anyone looking for an apologia for the use (in the author’s ideal world, the use exclusively) of Gregorian chant [MORE...]
Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW), published in 2006, is the new primary worship resource for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), also serving the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. The first thing you notice is that that word “book” is missing. It’s a new day.