Help Bifrost Arts!
If you love our style of worship and want to encourage and help an organization that is dedicated to creating and arranging such music for our church, I strongly encourage you to contribute on Bifrost Arts’ “Kickstarter” site, an online…
All Saints Hymns
“I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” Luke 19:40 music.allsaintsaustin.org
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Can you relate to this? You’ve just had a profound experience, and you’re attempting to explain it to someone. You fumble over the words, spending an inordinate amount of time plumbing the depths of your suddenly-creaking mind for the perfect…
From Purchases to Practices
“With their quick reliable hits of satisfaction, purchases are seductive. Building our life around them almost guarantees that we will never take the risk of embracing practices, which call us to long sustained difficulties and deferred gratification. But if we…
BP and Bach
Bill’s sermon last Sunday reminded me of Garrison Keillor’s editorial “BP and Bach” published June 2 in the New York Times. Keillor is the longtime host of NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion” available on radio (yes, radio is still around!) every Saturday…
Curse your branches
It’s not like the late ‘90s were suffering from an absence of quality Christian musicians. Neutral Milk Hotel, coming out of Louisiana, released their acclaimed In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea, which remains required listening for any fan of independent…
Emotionally corrective musical experience
There's a certain irony in referencing an article written by someone who lives in St. Louis, for a magazine based in Canada, about a band that is from here in Austin. But Jeremy Huggins' article, in Comment Magazine, about Balmorhea,…