What we are talking about here is not the experience of an audience, but the experience of an active worshiping assembly engaged in the worship of God through singing. There is perhaps no other physical activity that so engages the body, the mind, the spirit, and the emotions of an individual and an assembly than wholehearted singing. …[T]he activity of hymn singing allows an assembly to recognize itself as believers and as members of a faith community.

--Kubicki, The Song of the Singing Assembly, 56-57.

“The cradle of your love of life is the fact that it ends.” Not success, not reward. Not happiness or comfort. The truth of the temporary.


It’s okay to not be okay. You are enough. You are beloved, just as you are.

God is always on the side of the victim. God is always with the oppressed. Those of us with privilege have platforms, and a responsibility to use them.

Are all of the beloved songs of your community written by white people? Are the spirituals your community knows arranged by white arrangers? Does your repertoire list reflect a fullness of the image and likeness of God, or does it only reflect the God who looks like you?