articles by Ken Myers
34.5 — Sept/Oct 2021
On the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Composer Josquin des Prez
34.2 — March/April 2021
Bach's St. John Passion by the Bach Collegium Japan
33.3 — May/June 2020
Bach's Cantata BWV 106, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbesteZeit (God's time is the very best time)
33.1 — January/February 2020
On the Work and Legacy of Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
32.6 — November/December 2019
The Musical Treasures of Michael Praetorius Hold Tremendous Liturgical Significance
32.5 — September/October 2019
Charles Villiers Stanford's Gifts
Ancient Hymns Re-imagined by a Beloved Irish Composer
32.4 — July/August 2019
Hans Leo Hassler's Musical Corpus Communicates the "Divine Dance"
32.3 — May/June 2019
John Sheppard, Lost Music of the Sixteenth Century, and Love Made Audible
32.2 — March/April 2019
Worship is a Discipline that Demands a Well of Aesthetic Resource
32.1 — January/February 2019
My Beloved Spake & Sang unto Me
The Divine and Rapturous Love Poetry in the Song of Songs
31.6 — November/December 2018
Three Cantatas for Thoughtful Advent Reflection
31.5 — September/October 2018
Musical Counterpoint as an Analogy to the Trinitarian Life
31.3 — May/June 2018
Music is More Than Pleasurable Sound—It Points Us to a Deeper Order
31.2 — March/April 2018
The Sacred and Tragically Neglected Musical Repertoire of Orlande de Lassus
30.6 — Nov/Dec 2017
Familiar Christmas Hymns and More from Ralph Vaughan Williams—"Christian Agnostic"
30.5 — Sept/Oct 2017
Evolving Worldviews and Their Impact on the History of Western Music
30.4 — July/Aug 2017
The Harmony of Celestial Revelations
Symphonic Connection to God as Our Only Source of Life
27.2 — March/April 2014
Calvin Stapert's A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church
26.6 — Nov/Dec 2013
Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry by Hans Boersma
26.5 — Sept/Oct 2013
Thomas de Zengotita's Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It
26.4 — July/August 2013
Colin Gunton's The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity
26.3 — May/June 2013
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James S. Taylor
25.6 — Nov/Dec 2012
Oliver O'Donovan's Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics
25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology by Eugene Peterson
25.3 — May/Jun 2012
James Gaines's Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
25.2 — March/April 2012
Craig Gay's The Way of the (Modern) World: Or, Why It's Tempting to Live As If God Doesn't Exist
24.6 — Nov/Dec 2011
A. J. Conyers's The Long Truce: How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit
24.4 — July/August 2011
Daniel Bell's The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
24.3 — May/June 2011
Gilbert Meilaender's The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis
24.2 — March/April 2011
Colin Gunton's Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay Towards a Trinitarian Theology
24.1 — January/February 2011
James Turner's Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America
23.6 — November/December 2010
John McWhorter's Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
23.4 — July/August 2010
Nathan O. Hatch's The Democratization of American Christianity
23.2 — March/April 2010
Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value by Julian Johnson
22.8 — November/December 2009
Todd Gitlin's Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives
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