A Few Favorites

As we close out the year, I want to share my favorite reads and listens from the year, plus my favorite app. I hope you have a safe and restful holiday season – see you in 2021!

Building Christlike Church Communities through Music, on Music and the Church with Sarah Bereza, Ep. 57

I am so delighted to be talking with author Andy Thomas about his new book Resounding Body: Building Christlike Church Communities through Music. So often we think that a great church music program must be heavy on financial resources, but he “encourages music leaders to step up and persevere in low-resource contexts, and challenges all …

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Spending Out Your 2020 Music Budget? Here Are the 23 Choral Anthems I Bought This Year.

Last week I “spent out” the sheet music budget for the music ministry program I direct. Most of the music won’t be used until we’re worshipping in-person again. so I consider this purchase an act of hope for a future filled with in-person music making! That said though, I’m planning to do virtual choir anthems …

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First Conversational – A New Podcast

Introducing First Conversational! This season features four stories of transformation from members of the church where I minister (First Congregational Church of ST. Louis) – times when by choice or circumstance their lives were fundamentally changed. I was inspired to produce this show because we’re all in the midst of a transition right now. It’s …

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A Musical November

I think I’m not the only one who misses making music with other people in person. Yes I’m an organist and used to lonely hours of practice – but all solo and no group music is like all winter and no Christmas. So with actual Christmas on the horizon, I’ve decided to plan a musical …

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