2024 lenten playlist
As we step into the season of Lent, here's a playlist I put together for The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, the congregation I’m serving as interim musician.
Read Morean arrangement of glory to god, whose goodness shines on me
Just before Advent, I received sample copies of an arrangement of “Glory to God, Whose Goodness Shines on Me” by Joel Raney that also weaves in a bit of the hymn “To God Be the Glory” (a more inclusive text, too). It’s an accessible SAB arrangement and available for purchase from Hope Publishing Company. It’s fun to see something you’ve written come back in a new way!
Here’s a preview recording of the arrangement from the publisher’s website.
global song celebration at union presbyterian seminary
Last week, I visited United Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA to celebrate the installation of their new Schoenstein pipe organ. Doug Brown, the seminary’s musician, had the creative idea to bring the instrument into relationship with music of the Global Church, so we found thoughtful and playful ways to integrate the organ into music from Indonesia, Argentina, South Korea, the Philippines, Brazil, South Sudan, and Zimbabwe.
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call to worship article published
I’m grateful to be included in the most recent edition of Call to Worship, the liturgical journal of the Presbyterian Church (USA). There’s a fun photo on the cover as well as an article focused on paperless singing and my work with Music that Makes Community. And I was delighted to read the work of so many colleagues and friends in the same edition.
Thank you, Kim, for the invitation to share and the grace when pandemic burnout required some extra time to find my writing voice.
You can purchase a downloadable copy of the journal here.
we remember them
I wrote this piece in 2017 but it has took on special poignance this year, especially as we consider the many lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic and related illnesses, depression, and isolation. It moves gently between spaces of grief and gratitude, and hopes to offer a space to name those who have died.
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