"sing praise" Here's something you probably didn't know, or didn't want to know, about me. I'm a bit of a Swiftie. Taylor Swift wasn't on my radar screen during her early career. But I do try to pay attention to what my students are listening to. So in 2014, our student office worker was listening to Swift's recently released album
Singing the Psalms was very important in the early church. Hans Boersma explains this wonderfully in "Harmonious Reading", chapter 6 of Scripture as Real Presence (Baker, 2017): singing is sacramental.
Oh Yes. I have come to think about music as sacrament. 4 part acapella singing certainly is that in my very non-sacramental Mennonite world. My wife and I saw Leonard Cohen on his last tour before he died. Half way through (as I recall, during the song Come Healing) she turned to to me and said, "We're in church, aren't we?" indeed. On the other hand she would agree with Jana on Dylan, but Dylan is another of those musicians whose music mediates divine grace to me. For her that would be Sweet Honey in the Rock. No accounting for taste or for the mystery of divine grace.
Singing the Psalms was very important in the early church. Hans Boersma explains this wonderfully in "Harmonious Reading", chapter 6 of Scripture as Real Presence (Baker, 2017): singing is sacramental.
Oh Yes. I have come to think about music as sacrament. 4 part acapella singing certainly is that in my very non-sacramental Mennonite world. My wife and I saw Leonard Cohen on his last tour before he died. Half way through (as I recall, during the song Come Healing) she turned to to me and said, "We're in church, aren't we?" indeed. On the other hand she would agree with Jana on Dylan, but Dylan is another of those musicians whose music mediates divine grace to me. For her that would be Sweet Honey in the Rock. No accounting for taste or for the mystery of divine grace.