Benjamin Myers Elegy for Trains Village Books Press ISBN Number: 978-0-9818680-6-6 Over the last quarter century, poetry has done some rather public soul . Poets… Read More »Review: Elegy for Trains by Benjamin Myers
Musical form shapes content in very similar ways to poetic form, yet it is a bit more abstract and thus considerably more difficult to readily… Read More »Musical Form in Christian Hymnody
The next level of form is poetic meter and rhyme scheme. A poetic meter is basically how many syllables are in each line of the… Read More »Poetic Meter in Christian Hymnody
Word/Phrase Choice There are several different ways that content can be shaped within a hymn. The first is simply with what words are chosen to… Read More »Word and Phrase Choice in Christian Hymnody
My good friend Michael Riley has compiled a book of hymns and poetry that can be used this Friday to commemorate the suffering of our… Read More »A Good Friday devotion
Fiction is good for the soul. Good fictional literature grips the imagination and shapes the affections, both important for the life of faith. For that… Read More »Two Modern Novel Recommendations