July 2020 – Music Box

The Septuagint Psalms

Posted on July 31, 2020August 8, 2020 by william

The Psalms are unique in the Bible in that they are both God’s words to humanity and humanity’s words to God. Only in modern times have the Psalms lost this centrality in the heart and mind of the church. It was not so in former times. Indeed at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787…

Five Canonic Lamentations

Posted on July 28, 2020August 20, 2020 by william

What can one say in the midst of the madness and mayhem into which our country seems to be descending? The musical response that captured my imagination was the Book of Lamentations — poetic laments about the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586 BCE. Somehow that seemed apt. The Book of Lamentations is…