A NEW BOOK! Read the biography of an organ, and with it, the biography of a city. The Estey pipe organ in Marion’s Memorial Coliseum was one for Estey’s storied “luminous” consoles. That in itself should make this book worth reading. But more than that, the organ was a symbol of all that was good, […]
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I want to comment briefly about church communication in our post-modern world. EVERY CHURCH, whether very large or very small, should maintain a website, and should have an e-mail mailbox that is posted on that website and is monitored at least daily. Facebook and Twitter are great, but many people don’t know how to […]
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Here is a great hymn for the Fourth of July. I offer it as a meditation on the meaning of being an American. It doesn’t appear in most hymnals today, probably because it is politically incorrect, especially in the last stanza. God bless our EXCEPTIONAL country! Not alone for mighty empire, stretching far over land […]
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Shana Norton, from Austin, TX recently made a comment on Twitter that deserves repeating. She and my wife were having a Twitter conversation about the organ in England. Ms. Norton writes, “We visit England often. I find the sacred art, architecture & music to be a compelling invitation to spirituality.”
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Organ playing is the manifestation of a will filled with the vision of eternity. – Charles Marie Widor
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I am a “cat person.” And one thing I have learned about cats is that they are very stoic. A kitty can be in terrible pain, and show no outward sign, unless you are very attuned to its moods and habits. Sometimes, by the time they are obviously sick and hurting, they are in real crisis. Pipe […]
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