Tag: community

Minster-Shaped Church?

Byartsyhonker December 8, 2014 8 Comments
One proposal for the flourishing of the parish system in the Church of England The Church of England, we keep being told, has a problem: not enough resources to have a priest (or even a deacon) in every parish church. Some will say this is about a shortage of young vocations to fill stipendiary posts, others will be blunt and say it's because we don't have enough money to pay for that many...

Composer in Residence?

Byartsyhonker October 17, 2014 0 Comments
I've been thinking a lot lately about how to continue building some kind of career as a composer of choral music, especially liturgical music. I do most of my publicity online, and church music is still a largely-offline world. I do love our small-but-mighty choir at St Andrew's Leytonstone, but realistically, they can't sing my SATB work, and the unison/two-part/flexible music I write for them...

Let all the world in every corner sing.

Byartsyhonker July 13, 2012 7 Comments
I had a bit of a rant on Twitter this morning. I was upset by the government's continued assault on the poor and vulnerable through the dismantling of the welfare state, and I was frustrated with churches for what seems like apathy in the face of it, though it may be that it's closer to self-preservation than lack of care. Too often, it seems, we want to leave "politics" out of our religious...