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To shape a child’s religious imagination means teaching him to rightly understand, use, and judge the arts. For a Christian parent, music is at the top of the list of the arts to be taught. Music is commanded in worship (Eph 5:19, Col 3:16), commended for worship (Ps 150), and has perhaps the greatest power [...]
Continue Reading →It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought. “As nothing is [...]
Continue Reading →This is a brief series recommending good, conservative sacred music recordings. I began the series with several introductory remarks and a list of good albums of choral hymns and anthems. Last week I suggested several albums of Psalms sung in English. This final installment will list some different instrumental recordings of hymns. My list, again, [...]
Continue Reading →I’m writing a brief series recommending different recordings of excellent sacred music in English. Last time I introduced several thoughts and recommended more than a dozen recordings of hymns and anthems. Today I want to recommend a handful of choral recordings of the Psalms in English. Again, my list will not be exhaustive, and [...]
Continue Reading →I am frequently asked, “What do you listen to?” when folks find out how conservative I am. Continue Reading →
In 2007, Kevin Roose transferred from secular, liberal Brown University to evangelical, conservative Liberty University. This was not because he had been converted; Roose was raised in a version of the Quaker tradition which, according to him, involved sitting quietly in a chairs arranged in a circle for large portions of their meeting time–by the [...]
Continue Reading →If Timothy Dudley-Smith is known to Protestants in the United States, it is more likely as the biographer of theologian John Stott than as a poet. In nations more greatly influenced by Anglicanism, however, he is renowned as a hymnist who has written many excellent texts.
Dudley-Smith has stated in various [...]
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