This year marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the first performance of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ masterpiece, Fantasia on ...

I have just completed a versification of Psalm 97 along with an arrangement of the Genevan melody . As is the case with a number of psalms...

It is well known that liturgical language changes more slowly than ordinary spoken or written language and that people are exceedingly reluc...

I have made several updates to my website in recent weeks, as indicated below. For Christmas my wife gave me a rather extraordinary CD, The ...

The following appears as the most recent instalment of my monthly column, "Principalities & Powers," in the Canadian newspaper...

There is perhaps no biblical passage that more breathes the spirit of Advent than Isaiah 40:1-8, which, after the destruction predicted earl...

It would take too long to list the myriad composers who have set to music the Magnificat of Mary, as found in Luke 1:46-55. J. S. Bach'...

Several more videos have been added, including Psalm 47 sung by Les pèlerins du pays de Montbéliard, and Psalms 81 and 119 (partial) sung by...

Our family are currently members of a church that sings the psalms some of the time, if less than I myself would like to see. Those psalms t...

I have just posted several more videos to the video section of my website, including the following of a congregation singing Psalm 124 at l...

At the weekend I participated in the Refresh & Renew conference on worship at Redeemer University College. I was invited by Calvin Seer...

A colleague of mine recently returned from a conference in St. Andrews, Scotland, where he heard sung the Psalms in Scots Gaelic, with a pre...

Imagine, if you will, what it would be like if Christians were to hold competitions in chanting the Psalms similar to what we see below. If ...

I am cross-posting this with my other blog, Notes from a Byzantine-Rite Calvinist . It is not difficult to find Christian theologians and li...

Chuck Colson's latest Breakpoint commentary raises an issue of concern to many Christians, at least in North America, where we have the ...

During a recent holiday to Grand Bend, Ontario, our family visited the marvellous Lambton Heritage Museum , which proved to be much more int...

Among the canticles in the Old Testament is the Song of Hannah, which is found in I Samuel 2:1-10 . As you may recall, Hannah was one of the...

Having finally received and heard the Sacred Bridges album, I was inspired to compose my own arrangement of the tune for Psalm 2 , along wi...

This takes us back to England, of course, but I think it's worth drawing attention here to the beautiful melodies — nine in number — tha...

Read about this on my other blog: The Burning (Unburnt) Bush .