100 posts about the Psalms and what comes up when you write about them
- Another great (underused) hymn : Jesu, lover of my soul
- Labour of love : another Magnificat
- A (new) psalm for St Patrick
- Carols in church : a partial guide
- Choosing hymns for Sunday Mass
- My God : owning and being owned in the Psalms
- Stations of the Cross : #WomenWereThere
- Psalms in time of war
- Singing in God’s voice
- Seeking God’s face as a theme in the psalms
- Advent of Year C : joy just round the corner
- Starting singing again in church
- The shapes of psalms: songs, litanies, shanties, lullabies
- Bread of heaven, cake, muffin, scone, or hearth cake?
- For ever and ever : to eternity and beyond?
- Questions in the Psalms : who asks, who answers?
- Never on a Sunday : Psalm 2, clash of God and kings
- The early Church, from fear to courage: Eastertide B
- History and story psalms, too long for liturgy?
- The penitential psalm : Psalm 50/51 (again)
- Law is the theme for the Lent psalms (Year B)
- Hannah and the first Magnificat : 1 Samuel 2
- The story in the Advent psalms and readings, Year B
- Bookends : the first and the last psalms
- Another good old hymn : Holy God we praise thy name
- A bad Response can happen to a good psalm
- Archangels, Guardian Angels and their psalms
- ‘Bride’ as Church metaphor : Psalm 44 revisited
- Canticle Deut 32 : writing a tune for God’s anger?
- Psalm as folk psong : Ps 49/50 for July 1st
- Mood music : setting the tone for Psalm 68/69
- Virtual Corpus Christi, corporeal computer
- Scared to go out? : the Ascension
- When is a psalm not a psalm? When it’s from Daniel
- A hymn for our times : O God of earth and altar
- Holy Week without going to church
- No struggle for relevance in the Psalms
- Announcements and Annunciation
- The waves of death or the water of life?
- The fear of the Lord (and other sorts too)
- Theme of the psalms for Lent Year A : penitence
- Psalm 118/119, longest psalm, longest blog [sorry]
- Presentation/Candlemas : two feasts in one, and a palindromic date to match
- Worst of times, best of times…Ordinary Time?
- The finger of God : the power of touch
- The Lord is my light
- Cats: on Christmas cards, but not in the Bible
- Immaculate Conception and misconceptions
- A pilgrim psalm, which bears repeating : 121/122
- Does it actually mean me? : excluding language
- The psalmist’s confidence (and Jesus’ sidelong look)
- What is the purpose of a church choir?
- Does size matter? The shortest psalm (116/117)
- Making a song out of shouting for help : Psalm 39/40
- A name of power : who was Melchisedek?
- What’s the story in the Eastertide Sundays (Year C)?
- The Easter psalm (117/118) : the power of repetition
- Celebrating the Annunciation
- Spring saints and their psalms : David, Patrick and Joseph
- Pattern in the Lent psalms : Year C
- Lent Gospel Acclamations : an update
- Helping us to help you : why lead sheets?
- I mneed a mnemonic for the New Testament
- How lovely is your dwelling place (not mine, at the moment)
- Just how bleak was the midwinter?
- Advent hymns shouldn’t be penitential
- The Gentle Guide to my Christmas music
- The perils of being a pedant
- Naming the Alleluias (and remembering which is which)
- The stress of saying ‘I love you’
- Psalm 87/88 : how do you sing about despair?
- Jesus and women; or the Bible and Bechdel
- The verse words : Gospel Acclamations Part 2
- Alleluia! Gospel Acclamations Part I
- Psalm 91 (92) : horns, oxen, strength and honour
- The trees of the Lord drink their fill (Psalm 103)
- Come Holy Spirit : expressing the inexpressible
- The Gentle Guide to my Holy Week music
- Palm or Passion Sunday and its psalm(s)
- One of the best song lyrics ever
- Lent Gospel Acclamations, a User’s Guide
- What makes a good psalm Response?
- Presents, gifts and Christmas
- One woman’s voice : the Magnificat
- Women’s voices in the Bible : few but worth listening to
- Sheep are cute, but why are we ‘sheep’?
- Love songs and lullabies (and some old films)
- For us and for our salvation : inclusive language
- Clouds and darkness are his raiment
- When did you last see an angel?
- Psalms of yearning, few but haunting
- Music for the Queen of Heaven : setting the Assumption psalms
- Waiting, hoping and trusting : the same but different
- Animals in the Psalms
- Music for your wedding : things worth considering
- What about the organ, ‘the king of instruments’ ?
- Musical instruments (for holy purposes)
- What comes first, the rhythm or the melody?
- The bittersweetness of the Ascension
- The Lord is my shepherd : why so many versions
