Category Archives: Music

Is our worship too dependent upon technology?

This past Sunday in Wales, a group of elders gathered at their church building to pray. The ancient stone chapel had been without heating since a group of construction workers shut off the gas supply to the building earlier in the week, then forgot to turn it back on for the weekend. It was judged […]

Gia Lucid :: Fellow Pilgrim on the Journey

In one of my recent surfing expeditions—looking for some "podsafe" music—I stumbled onto Garageband.com and I clicked on their featured acoustic "track of the day" not realizing anything about the artist or her song, "Journey." But within seconds I was thinking, "Amazing sound and vocals!" Just my type of music, which is not often easy […]

Music: help or hindrance in worship?

In speaking of music, Longfellow described it as “the universal language of mankind” and Tolstoy called it “the shorthand of emotion.” Every human being knows from experience how their deepest joys can give rise to exuberant song and they have often learned how to paint their deepest sorrows with the darker colors of music; thus […]