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September 2024

September 15, 2024

Psalm 119 and the Capabilities of ChatGPT

Teaching my course on the Bible and Music again, I have been thinking a lot...

August 2023

August 07, 2023

John the Baptist Song (with 17 verses!)

The big academic book about John the Baptist has been submitted to the publisher. It...

March 2021

March 27, 2021

Explaining Fifty Ways to Forge a Gospel

I promised to return to the lyrics of the parody song "Fifty Ways to...

August 2020

August 13, 2020

Alleluia! New Patheos Blog on the Bible and Music!

I am delighted to share the news and help spread the word that Delvyn Case...

December 2019

December 22, 2019

The Most Wonderful Time of the Academic Year

How does a professor blow off steam and relax just a bit before getting...

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...

April 2019

April 12, 2019

Biblical Concertos

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

December 2018

December 20, 2018

Bible, It’s Cold Outside

I've followed the recent discussions about the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with interest. But...

December 04, 2018

O Come O Come And Write More Advent Hymns

O come O come and write more advent hymns Their number and their quality are...

November 2018

November 02, 2018

Time Change Sunday Hymn

As a fan of progressive rock, you might have assumed this post would be about...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

If I Don’t Have Love (1 Corinthians 13 as Song)

In other classes that I teach, I assign essays to students with no hesitation without...

April 19, 2018

Unwell Student

It has been a while since I've made a parody song, but recently I found...

July 2017

July 03, 2017

Make America Repentant Again

I would love to see the people of the United States work together to "make...

May 2017

May 11, 2017

Viva La Library Live

This is a recording of the first ever live performance of the information literacy song,...

May 05, 2017

Tolkien Have Mercy

Dănuţ Mănăstireanu drew my attention to the video above. It is striking how its creator...

April 2017

April 09, 2017

Singing Hosanna

Nick Alexander created this parody of the well-known Pina Colada song ("Escape"). Today, Palm Sunday, marks the occasion...

February 2017

February 16, 2017

The Hippopotamus Song

I mentioned previously my hope that students would broaden my horizons. That happened during the...

December 2016

December 05, 2016

Spontaneous Singing in the Bible

As I prepare to teach my course on the Bible and music next semester, I've...

December 29, 2015

A Bible Typo as Prelude to the Hymn of Jesus

The Acts of John concludes with Jesus leading his disciples in song (with words that...

December 24, 2015

Silent Night (arr. Stephen Paulus)

This arrangement of Silent Night by Stephen Paulus was featured on Performance Today recently, and...

December 12, 2015

A Spaceman Came Traveling

A newer rendition of the classic sci-fi Christmas song by Chris DeBurgh, "A Spaceman Came...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

50 Ways to Forge a Gospel

As the song lyrics indicate, it genuinely was at the 2015 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium...

August 2015

August 29, 2015

Once Upon a Universe

I hadn't heard this song by Jake Heggie before today. It depicts God as a...

June 2015

June 18, 2015

Baba Yetu

I've mentioned the song Baba Yetu before. It is music from the game Civilization IV,...

May 2015

May 17, 2015

Ultimate Concern

I had the privilege of sharing the song I wrote, "Ultimate Concern," at Crooked Creek...

April 2015

April 20, 2015

Pistis Sophias

The composition is by Andrew Violette, and the score, which is visible in the video,...

February 2015

February 09, 2015

Mandaean Music

One of the best questions I was asked after my recent talk about the Mandaeans...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Doubt (Work of Wolves)

December 2014

December 15, 2014

Paul the Gentiles’ Apostle

This bit of musical satire emerged from the course on Paul and the Early Church...

December 12, 2014

The Very Model of a Biblical Philologist

Josh Tyra made this delightful video. David Lamb and Darrell Pursiful brought it to my attention....

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