Composer, aesthete, and teacher
This past Sunday I finished teaching a three-week series at Church on Tap, titled "Myopia: Spiritual Nearsightedness and the Health of the Church." The series was based on ideas from a paper I presented last year at a conference at Houghton College and subsequently developed further in recent months. In Part I, I lay out my ...
My presentation of my paper, "The Romance of the Impossible and the Reality of Transcendence" at the CFAMC conference last October at Biola University is finally up! The paper is basically a view from 20,000 feet of my thoughts on the intersection of Christianity, aesthetics, and culture. I shared the floor here with Calvin College ...
This October I had the privilege of moderating a discussion between British composer and ordained Orthodox priest Fr. Ivan Moody and American composer Frank La Rocca, recently retired from teaching at Cal State - East Bay. What was originally supposed to be two separate sessions, one on transcendence in music and the other on the ...
The recording of my sermon, "Our Divine Romance", from Church on Tap last Sunday is now live on their website here. There is also a link here to download the mp3 directly. The sermon expands on one element of my paper "The Romance of the Impossible and the Reality of Transcendence" which I presented last ...
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