Glory and giving up for Lent
Maybe, in another season or another year, I will find a nourishing reason behind omitting the Gloria, but this year, our family will keep singing together.
Paradigm shifts in Science, Art and Easter
One consequence of a paradigm shift in science is that whole fields are revisited and need to be re-understood. This can be true both for the fields at the centre of the paradigm shift but also for other related disciplines.
‘Come, hurry and run’
Since we’re in the Easter season until Pentecost, I want to write about two of Bach’s Easter works. They stand apart from classical Easter music in the way that all of Bach’s music stands at the summit of classical music, period.
‘Comes forth the glorious Sun’
In the Christian life and in the church year Easter rightly looms large. “If Christ had not been raised your faith would be in vain,” we confess with Paul (1 Cor. 15:17).
Good? Friday
What a difference a day makes
Believers value life on earth
Believing in the resurrection of the dead should make us less afraid of death. But it should not make us think lightly about life on earth.
