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A Biblical Basis for Music and the Performing Arts

A Biblical Basis for Music and the Performing Arts

The underlying biblical foundations for music

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What has the gospel got to do with improvisation?

What has the gospel got to do with improvisation?

How the gospel relates to improvisation

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What has the gospel got to do with harmony exercises?

What has the gospel got to do with harmony exercises?

How harmony exercises relate to the gospel

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What has the gospel got to do with composition?

What has the gospel got to do with composition?

How the gospel relates to composition

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What has the gospel got to do with analysis?

What has the gospel got to do with analysis?

How the gospel relates to the practice of musical analysis

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What has the gospel got to do with musicology?

What has the gospel got to do with musicology?

How the gospel relates to musicology

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Beauty and the Bible

Beauty and the Bible

How the Bible speaks of ‘beauty’ and what this means for our music

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Appendix to ‘Beauty and the Bible’

Appendix to ‘Beauty and the Bible’

An appendix to Becky Chevis’s article ‘Beauty and the Bible’

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A self-forgetful musician?

A self-forgetful musician?

Cultivating self-forgetfulness in your music-making

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Creaturely creativity

Creaturely creativity

Some brief reflections on the relationship between God’s creativity and our creativity

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Practising our fundamentals

Practising our fundamentals

The repetitive nature of practice, and what it teaches us about rehearsing the gospel to ourselves

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Seeing every piece of music-making through the lens of the Gospel

Seeing every piece of music-making through the lens of the Gospel

Principles from Ted Turnau’s book ‘Popologetics’ applied to music-making

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Worked examples of the ‘Popologetics’ analysis framework

Worked examples of the ‘Popologetics’ analysis framework

An appendix, with four worked examples, to the resource ‘Seeing every piece of music through …

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free improvisation & anarchy

free improvisation & anarchy

An exploration of the music’s political implications through examining the relationship …

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Musicking in Corona-Time: Reflections from CS Lewis

Musicking in Corona-Time: Reflections from CS Lewis

CS Lewis’ sermon ‘Learning in War-Time’ applied to musicians in the 2020 Covid-19 …

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Discover and Develop: Experimental Music, Creation, and the Cultural Mandate

Discover and Develop: Experimental Music, Creation, and the Cultural Mandate

An argument for greater engagement with experimental music by Christians

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The yonder of its vision

The yonder of its vision

A brief blog sharing Herman Bavinck’s words on art from his opening chapter of ‘The …

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Ecclesiastes for music students

Ecclesiastes for music students

Reflections on the message of Ecclesiastes and how we might live it out as musicians

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Gifts or skills? A poetic reflection

Gifts or skills? A poetic reflection

Becky Chevis shares a poetic reflection on gifts vs skills

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A musician stands at the gate of the year

A musician stands at the gate of the year

Thoughts on how to respond to the recent drastic diminishment of the music industry.

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Why I’ve desired choral music more than ever lately

Why I’ve desired choral music more than ever lately

Reflections on Covid, choral music, and community.

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Voicing Creation’s Praise

Voicing Creation’s Praise

A book review of ‘Voicing Creation’s Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts’ by …

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Theology, Music and Time

Theology, Music and Time

A book review of Jeremy Begbie’s ‘Theology, Music and Time’

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Music Network introduction

Music Network introduction

Introducing the UCCF Music Network - why it exists, what it does and how it achieves its aims

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Though there are torturers

Though there are torturers

A poem which could be used to prompt discussion on good and evil, and how music fits in to that

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Spotlight: Jeremy Begbie

Spotlight: Jeremy Begbie

A chat with eminent theologian and musicologist Professor Jeremy Begbie

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What is the Music Network’s theology of music in a nutshell?

What is the Music Network’s theology of music in a nutshell?

The MN’s theology of music explained in under 5 minutes

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Is God a musician?

Is God a musician?

Can we legitimately think of God Himself as a musician? Here’s why we can, in under 5 minutes

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What should I not sing or play?

What should I not sing or play?

Some guidelines for what you maybe should NOT play or sing, discussed in under 5 minutes

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Is music special?

Is music special?

The value of music in God’s economy, discussed in under 5 minutes

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Is music still good after the Fall?

Is music still good after the Fall?

How the Fall has affected music discussed in under 5 minutes

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Spring Gathering 2025: rejuvenating and nourishing rhythms

Spring Gathering 2025: rejuvenating and nourishing rhythms

Cambridge saxophonist and musicologist Sophie Jones shares her experience of the 2025 Spring …

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Forum 2024: Filled to the brim with God’s grace

Forum 2024: Filled to the brim with God’s grace

Percussionist Ng Hoi Yin shares her experience of Forum 2024

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Enrich 2024: submitting our whole lives to the Lordship of Christ

Enrich 2024: submitting our whole lives to the Lordship of Christ

Oxford violinist Matthew Eldridge’s write-up of his experience of Enrich 2024

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Enrich 2023

Enrich 2023

A report from violist Hannah Borlase about her time at UCCF’s ‘Enrich’ conference

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Word Alive 2022: such an incredible week

Word Alive 2022: such an incredible week

A couple of students report on their experience at Word Alive 2022