The Role of Your Life
Like most folks who work in the arts, I hate auditions. Spend a little bit of time with an actor, singer, or dancer and you’ll get a...
Through the Eyes of a Poet
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off,...
Singing Freedom
This past Sunday was in the midst of Memorial Day weekend and in between all the grilling, drinking, graduations, and festivities, I...
A Solidarity of Sound
On any given evening, the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony, like any first-tier orchestra, are capable of playing beautiful music. ...
Happiness
Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. – William Cowper (1731-1800) English poet and hymnodist I...
Practice changes everything
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. – John Milton (1608-1674) Want to change your life?...
Thou little tiny child
When did “Christmas” arrive for you? Or did it? Was it last night during a candlelit “Silent Night” or when you first laid eyes on your...
Ring Out, Wild Bells
There is something powerful in ringing bells and most religious traditions have some sort of bell ringing practices. Even those with no...
For the love of God
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist Throughout scripture, we...
Many are called, few pick up
God will find a way to let us know that God is with us in this place, wherever we are, however far we think we’ve run. And maybe that’s...
