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8 mins read|12/25/20This story of despair met with the hope of the gospel is rightly told by many during the holiday season.
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15 mins read|09/13/20The Church's hymns help us see our own world from another—and perhaps not so different—vantage point that illuminates the impact of the work of Christ and the general providing and protecting activity of our Creator in our lives.
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3 mins read|05/11/20Turns out the Christian Church's goal was also the pursuit of happiness! Ooops! Thanks Pandemic!
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16 mins read|04/24/20Elisabeth Cruciger is the first female Lutheran hymn writer. In fact, her hymn was included in the very first evangelical hymnal, published in 1524. With her life and her hymn, she becomes a witness, an example, and a proclaimer of the gospel to us almost 500 years later.
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8 mins read|01/22/20We sing, and in so doing, we are blessed as we are instilled with the word of God in word and song.
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14 mins read|12/30/19The real power of his hymn comes from the fact that Bonhoeffer does not offer a rosy picture of life or any of the tropes so typical of cheap piety that tell us that everything is always right, that things happen for a reason, and that we should try to stay positive.
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13 mins read|12/27/19It is that Christmas carol, the curious “We Three Kings” that we are looking at today in our examination of the origin and meaning of Christmas carols.
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1 min read|12/22/19Daniel Emery Price and Erick Sorensen talk with Chad Bird about his Christmas/Communion hymn, The Infant Priest Was Holy Born.
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1 min|12/21/19Break the cycle. Rise above. Focus on Christ in the manger. In their monumental 100th episode, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss G.K. Chesterton’s “The Christmas Ballads.” This episode, it’s a lot of incarnation talk and a few rabbit trails along the way.
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8 mins read|12/18/19One gloomy, silent night, God stepped into our darkness. The Word had not only spoken but was now made flesh.
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7 mins read|12/11/19All creation joins together to repeat the sounding joy.
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21 mins read|12/04/19Despite its familiarity and frequent usage, the imagery in "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," is often underappreciated.
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