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Quivering Daughters
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News and Extras (Read All About Them)

What, you may ask, have I been up to lately? Looks like it’s time for one of those News and Updates things:

My choral arrangement of the Irish folk song “Mick McGuire” is heading toward publication! I’m putting the final touches on the second proof, and it’s down to the final nitpicky things. Those [...]

Antidotes to Spiritual Abuse

Guilt, shame, and condemnation. Unspoken rules you have to live up to. Authoritarian leaders you can’t ever question. An exclusive “us-vs.-them” mentality. Subtle or not-so-subtle pressure to fit in. Barely veiled manipulation and peer pressure tactics. Fear of doing the wrong thing. Public rebuking if you do. Warnings against what will happen if [...]

Practical Tips for Worship Leading

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Originally published August 2006. These ideas are in a rough and unpolished form. I wrote them down one evening while they were in my mind for some reason, and since then several people have told me this was very helpful in their own work in worship music. This is still very much [...]

R. A. Torrey Debunks the Da Vinci Code

Originally posted May 2006. I put this together back when The Da Vinci Code and its remarks on the authority of the Bible were the hottest topic of conversation. With the publication of Dan Brown’s new book, and with few signs of popular misconceptions about the Bible dying down, I thought it [...]

Changing a Church Service: I’ve Got a Little List

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The always engaging SirNickDon recently posed an interesting question about church: “If your job was to remove five minutes from your Sunday-morning church service, what would you cut out?” (He voted to remove the “special” music, calculating precisely how many man-hours had been wasted watching someone do sign language to “I Can Only [...]

New CD Project!

Starting on September 8, I’ll be recording a new CD. My usual piano and vocals will be joined with the audio engineering skills of Peter Devins, the vocals and guitar stylings of Carrie Pazdziora, and the fantastic violin virtuosity of Øystein Torp, making an intimate but dynamic sound. The songs are new [...]

The Tale of Mr. Fiddle

want to be famous!” said young Mister Fiddle. “I’m tired of feeling so humble and little. I want to have glory, and honor, and fame, And have everyone notice when they hear my name.”

So he went off to college and got a degree, Thinking this would impress them as sure as could [...]