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August 2026

August 28, 2026

The Significance of Sunday

"O Day of Rest and Gladness" by Christopher Wordsworth (whose uncle was the great poet...

August 25, 2026

The New Sacrament

A worship conference recently discussed "whether worship music has become a new sacrament." It is...

July 2026

July 17, 2026

Pop Music Is Increasingly about “Harm and Degradation”

Complaining about young people's music has become a cliché of getting older, as have complaints...

April 2026

April 14, 2026

The Earliest Hymn with Its Ancient Greek Music

The Oxyrhynchus Hymn from the 200's A.D. is "the earliest known manuscript of a Christian Greek hymn to...

April 03, 2026

His Bleeding Love

A notable Lenten hymn is "Not All the Blood of Beasts" by Isaac Watts, a...

December 2025

December 22, 2025

Advent & Christmas Miscellany, 12/22/25

A special Miscellany to finish off Advent and open up to Christmas: I with you...

December 19, 2025

DISCUSS: Your Favorite and Least Favorite Christmas Songs

What are your favorite Christmas songs? And what are your least favorite?

December 16, 2025

What Changes in Pop Music Tell About Us

A study of pop music from 1973 to 2023 shows that, as time goes by,...

December 12, 2025

Candlelight & Advent

Advent is a season of darkness. But the symbol of Advent is candlelight. The small,...

November 2025

November 18, 2025

“I Don’t Think Hank Done It This Way”

The #1 country song in America turns out to be AI-generated. What this tells us...

August 2025

August 14, 2025

Christianity’s Improved Social Status

"As the decline in religious attendance has slowed, the past few years have also seen...

July 2025

July 02, 2025

Flame’s New Book on Church Fathers & the Sacraments

[A free post.] The Christian rapper and Lutheran convert Marcus "Flame" Gray has published a...

June 2025

June 30, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 6/30/25

New York democrats pick Muslim socialist for mayor. The Department of Justice defends the Seal of...

June 03, 2025

Resolving the Worship Wars of Generation Z

"Christianity Today" has an article about how Generation Z Christians seem to like both traditional...

April 2025

April 18, 2025

My Song Is Love Unknown

The popular Good Friday hymn "My Song Is Love Unknown" is based on two poems...

December 2024

December 25, 2024

My Christmas Presents to You, 2024

Merry Christmas! A custom of this blog has been to give Christmas presents to my...

December 23, 2024

The Christmas Music That Is Advent Music

Much of our Christmas music, both sacred and secular, is actually Advent music, expressing a...

November 2024

November 29, 2024

DISCUSS: Shopping Ideas

What suggestions would you have for your fellow Cranachers trying to think of a good...

September 2024

September 16, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 9/16/24

Welfare and our fiscal woes; the problem with Ranked-Choice voting; and Artificial Intelligence providing both...

September 13, 2024

Nostalgia Fixation and the End of Progressivism

Have you noticed how many movies today are remakes of --almost always better--movies made years...

July 2024

July 31, 2024

Flame Ignites Word on Fire

The Catholic evangelistic site Word on Fire has posted an appreciation of the Lutheran rapper...

May 2024

May 20, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 5/20/24

Canada's "blood libel against Christians"; the world's baby shortage; and the Taylor Swift liturgy.

March 2024

March 29, 2024

Bach’s “St. John Passion”

If you went to the Good Friday Vespers service at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig...

February 2024

February 12, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 2/12/24

Taylor & Toby, Iceland builds a pagan temple, and something else churches have stopped teaching about.

August 2023

August 29, 2023

Oliver Anthony’s Critics from the Left, the Right, and the Religious

"Rich Men North of Richmond" by Oliver Anthony is a cry of the heart from...

August 28, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 8/28/23

Conservatives' pop culture moment, the courts keep supporting religious liberty, and Republican big spenders.

July 2023

July 17, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 7/17/23

An Anglican bishop says the Lord's Prayer is "problematic," fake reviews online are being outlawed,...

May 2023

May 01, 2023

Monday Miscellany 5/1/23

A new religious holiday, recruiting gamers into the military, and Johnny Rotten as model husband.

April 2023

April 20, 2023

Where Praise Music Comes From

Of the 38 most popular praise songs--those that made the Top 25 charts for that...

March 2023

March 17, 2023

DISCUSSION: What Is the Best Song of the 21st Century So Far?

Playing off of a dispute at the National Review site, what do you consider to...