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Faith & Worship
The playing of handbells “is not a one-size-fits-all musical idiom,” said Sandy Eithun, who’s co-directing handbell choirs this week during the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference being held at Montreat Conference Center. “There are places for everyone, and we need everyone.”
Steve Prince, the artist in residence during the two weeks of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference, has taken the accumulative approach with the dozens of students he’s been working with last week and this week.
With the final work by artist-in-residence Steve Prince and his students welcoming everyone gathered in Anderson Auditorium at Montreat Conference Center to “come unto me,” Friday’s worship at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference capped a week of thoughtful, prayerful, community-building worship that put glorious music by people of all ages front and center.
Worship during the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference being held this week at Montreat Conference Center continues with its pattern of seamless and beautiful liturgy and quality musicianship, the latter provided Thursday by Dr. Tony McNeill on piano and Eric Wall on organ.
Wisdom, as found in the biblical books of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes — and in other places too — is all about the human condition, Creation and nature, moral character, navigating life and experience.
With a nod to the rain that’s pounded Montreat Conference Center since the start of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Music & Worship Conference, those gathered to worship Wednesday opened the service by singing “There Shall be Showers of Blessing” and “Rain Down.”
Moving on from Creation to the Torah, Dr. William Brown made the case Wednesday that the current struggle to determine what’s concrete in, say, the interpretation of laws under the U.S. Constitution was vexing for folks in Old Testament times as well.
Children; brass, rhythm and string instruments; and communion all found their way into worship Tuesday at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference.
In the beginning, Dr. William Brown said on Tuesday, God created a dialogue.
“One of the ancient definitions of the theologian is that the theologian is the one who prays,” said the Rev. Dr. Robert Cathey, professor emeritus of theology from McCormick Theological Seminary, during the fifth and final episode of this season of “Everyday God-talk,” a web video series from the Office of Theology and Worship.
