Hi Everyone, We made it to our goal earlier this week and are floored by your support and love! We will have some amazing digital goodies coming out over the weekend (i.e. a 100+ page visual devotional on the Psalms of Ascents and a 30+ song album of new psalm settings) for your Holy Week… Continue Reading →
Kickstarter – Songs for the Sojourn (Psalms for Holy Week)
Cardiphonia + Bellwhether Arts have just released a kickstarter fundraising project to raise $$ for a long term exploration of the Psalms of Ascents (with a focus on Holy Week.) Please consider supporting our project! LINK This project was initially begun as a Calvin worship grant in 2010 and spiraled into a sprawling endeavor to… Continue Reading →
Hope College Worship – Psalms EP 2017
Last Fall we invited singer-songwriter and anglican artist-in-residence Wendell Kimbrough to perform a concert of his most recent Psalms album as well as lead a songwriting retreat with my worship teams with Hope College. After a few hard months of edits, arrangements, and pre-production work my students booked one day in Hope’s fancy new recording… Continue Reading →
Bono and Eugene Peterson on the Psalms
My friend David Taylor along with a host of other folks from Fuller’s new studio project released a video this week that captures the relationship between U2’s Bono and Eugene Peterson over the past 20 years. The video culminates in a short discussion at the Peterson’s home in Flathead Lake, Montana where Bono sings a… Continue Reading →
Jess Alldredge – Psalms, Hymns, & Spiritual Songs
Jess Alldredge is the worship arts director at Grace Pres in Seattle, Wa and a master collaborator. He plays more instruments than a presbyterian has catechism questions and rocks one of the finest sweater vest collections this side of the rockies. He’s also finally gotten around to writing and producing his own album. It’s a… Continue Reading →
Cardiphonia Compilation – Psalms 135-150
Cardiphonia is excited to release the first in a new series of compilations focusing exclusively on the psalms. You can find them at a new bandcamp address Psalms.Bandcamp.com. We started with the last section of book five – Psalms 135-150. This section of psalms contains a lot of familiar psalms and phrases and is a great illustration of the… Continue Reading →
Songs and Psalms of Lament – a resource
A tragedy strikes and your pastor emails and says we need to set aside some time to lament on Sunday. You break out your songlist and discover that in fact you have ZERO songs of lament. There have been cries from many different corners of the church in the past few years that our worship… Continue Reading →
Sandra McCracken – Psalms
Welcome to your worship resource primer on many things Sandra McCracken (If you’ve not had the privilege of following her work). She is a stellar Singer-Songwriter, author, and lover of hymns old and new. We first heard of her songwriting through the retuned hymn group Indelible Grace. Catch her on tour right now with All… Continue Reading →
[reviews] Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs
{Here is a collection of reviews I wrote up recently for a magazine that didn’t end up getting published. A few of my favorite albums playfully engaging with the biblical categories of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.} [Psalms] – Prayerbook 2 by Brian Moss Brian Moss is a presbyterian minister (Maple Valley Presbyterian) and accomplished… Continue Reading →
Seven Reasons to Sing the Psalms – Douglas Bond
I’ve been reading through Forgotten Songs: Reclaiming the Psalms for Christian Worship this summer. It is a collection of far ranging essays from a conference held at Union University a few years back. Definitely worth picking up. Douglas Bond in his chapter “Biblical Poetry in a Postbiblical, Postpoetry World” finishes with 7 reasons we need the… Continue Reading →
