Blog
Articles about a cappella worship, congregational singing, and the OpenPsalm project.
“I Do Not See How a True Methodist Could Write Such Meaningful Words”
L. O. Sanderson left a Methodist choir loft in 1922 and spent the next seventy years teaching the churches of Christ to sing — including the day he asked a Methodist friend for a poem on Romans 6 and got back “Buried with Christ.”
Our Songs Are Now on GitHub
The entire OpenPsalm song catalog now lives in a public GitHub repository—browse the source of every score, report a wrong note, or contribute a hymn of your own.
The OpenPsalm Style Guide
The engraving conventions behind every PDF in the catalog—when notes are beamed, when you'll see a slur versus a tie, and what a dashed slur is asking you to do.
Singing the Bible
An introduction to the unique musical and syntactical system of cantillation used in the Sifrei Emet—Psalms, Proverbs, and Job.
Prone to Wander: The Complex Theology of Robert Robinson
An exploration of the life of Robert Robinson, tracing his journey from an evangelical Methodist convert to a prominent Baptist minister, his historical research on baptism, and his controversial later shift toward Unitarianism.
The Biblical Case for A Cappella Singing in Christian Worship
An examination of the New Testament evidence regarding music in Christian worship and why the early church sang without instrumental accompaniment.