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April 2020

April 14, 2020

Songs of Your Truth

I was delighted when I learned a while back (in a conversation with Deb Saxon...

April 09, 2020

The Judas Passion and Graphic Novel

Teaching a course on the Bible and music leads me to encounter so much material...

April 08, 2020

Seder-Masochism

I didn't manage to share Nina Paley's movie "Seder-Masochism" in time for Passover when...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

RIP Krzysztof Penderecki

You have probably already heard the sad news that Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki has died....

March 28, 2020

Some Psalms

My colleague Paul Valliere (now retired) used to teach a course on the Psalms, focused...

February 2020

February 29, 2020

Dawn Chorus Playlist

One of the wonderful experiences I had when visiting Australia was to go stand outside...

February 15, 2020

Musical Hell

I am supervising an honors thesis on the subject of Mandaean views of music past...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Theology and Progressive Rock Brown Bag Recording

Here are recordings of the Brown Bag talk that my colleague Frank Felice and I...

January 25, 2020

Theology and Progressive Rock Brown Bag

I'm sharing this poster for an upcoming presentation at Butler University, related to a book...

November 2019

November 28, 2019

Biblical Music in the Milken Archive

I love the Milken Archive. So much Jewish music has been made available, promoted, highlighted,...

November 26, 2019

LDS Rockers

Rock music has been associated in the minds of most people more with LSD than...

November 16, 2019

John Rutter’s Requiem

I thought I would share the thoughts that were part of my panel presentation as...

November 10, 2019

James MacMillan on Faith and Music

There is a new book coming out that I am eager to read about composer...

November 03, 2019

#CFP Music and the Psalms

I don't think I'll propose a paper, but I am incredibly interested in attending this...

November 01, 2019

Vytautas Miškinis

Here is a small selection of choral music by Lithuanian composer Vytautas Miškinis, setting a...

October 2019

October 18, 2019

Genesis and Theology

The Genesis referred to in the title of this post is not the book in...

October 10, 2019

Mass of the Apocalypse

From the blog post at Land of Lost Content about Peter Dickinson's Mass of the Apocalypse:...

October 07, 2019

Music on Doctor Who

There is a lot that one can write about the music composed especially for Doctor...

October 06, 2019

Rick Wakeman’s Prayers and (New) Gospels

Rick Wakeman has recorded several albums that intersect with the Bible, as well as more...

October 05, 2019

Come Where The Healing Waters Flow

This song emerged out of the intersection of two of my book projects. I...

September 2019

September 17, 2019

Belshazzar and Other Scripture in Song

A while back, Richard Beck pointed to Johnny Cash's song "Belshazzar" as an example of...

September 09, 2019

Rutter’s Requiem in Spirit and Place 2019

I will be involved in this year's Spirit and Place festival, which always has lots of...

August 2019

August 14, 2019

The Bible and Music in Children’s Songs

Another topic that I cover in my class on the Bible and Music is the...

June 2019

June 21, 2019

Music of Wolfram Wagner

Wolfram Wagner has composed a significant number of works that incorporate biblical text, whether as...

June 14, 2019

Ståle Kleiberg, David and Bathsheba

Even if I did not teach a course on the Bible and music, even if...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

Martynov – The Beatitudes

One could teach a whole semester-long course on musical settings of just one text, such...

May 27, 2019

Bringing Ravel into my Bible and Music Class?

I was really struck by the article in Bible History Daily about how the story...

April 2019

April 28, 2019

#CFP The Senses of Science Fiction: Visions, Sounds, Spaces

The Senses of Science Fiction: Visions, Sounds, Spaces An international conference organized by the Speculative...

April 20, 2019

Superseding Supersessionist Theology

When I shared yesterday's blog post on Facebook, I added some words, which I want...

April 12, 2019

Biblical Concertos

The Milken Archive has been creating some wonderful online exhibits of Jewish music from across...

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