ON THE COVER:
"In this issue, we focus
on music ministry and where it leads us" (Inside ML, page 2). |
From
Inside
ML: Each year when we craft the music-focus issue of ML, I use liturgical
music as something of a thematic guide. This year, I struggled with the
choice of what piece of music could fulfill that role, challenge and inspire
our writers, and build connections within the issue. Ultimately I settled
on “How Can I Keep from Singing?” This song has always seemed to pose a
question in affirmation, a nearly rhetorical question in the face of God’s
goodness. Today, though, I see friends and colleagues in ministry, my brothers
and sisters in Christ, whose song has been nearly silenced. They have indeed
been kept from singing, the song in their hearts crushed, at times by a
clerical whim. (More) |
