Category: Music

• art Music poetry

  Lyrics for the Run-off Hiss

  

  May 18—IYKYK An old poem of mine, appropriate for today: Elaine Elizabeth BelzLYRICS FOR THE RUN-OFF HISS The birds were singing in your letter: figmentsof your drunkenness, perhaps; or else the nighthad finally succumbed to morning—Morningseems unreal in this real-life dream. In your half-lit last rite, even I can seethat…

  18 May 2026
• art Church Year Lectionary Music Theological reflection

  When Theologians Have Pet Peeves in Holy Week

  Good Friday, 2024 Pet peeves? Oh, I have plenty. But I won’t get into all my theological quibbles, or my personal tastes and distastes. I’ve actually overstated things in the title. It’s not click-bait; I know you’re the only person seeing this, dear reader. (Thank you!) Really, I want to…

  30 March 2024
• Church Year Music Uncategorized

  Favorite Christmas albums

  Happy New Year! We’re still in the midst of the Christmas season (those 12 days many know only from the song), so there’s still time to enjoy this wonderful music outside of the context of shopping malls and people trying to induce you to buy stuff. Having just said that,…

  1 January 2014