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This Is My Story: Catherine Wilson
Welcome to "This Is My Story," a new blog series dedicated to highlighting the journeys of individuals within the Polyphony Music...
This Is My Story: David Warren
Welcome to "This Is My Story," a new blog series dedicated to highlighting the journeys of individuals within the Polyphony Music...
This Is My Story: Toney Keeler
Welcome to "This Is My Story," a new blog series dedicated to highlighting the journeys of individuals within the Polyphony Music...
The Three Things
Happy Third Sunday of Advent! Joy is the word du jour. May it be so for you and yours. It’s only ten days until Christmas. Three Sunday...
Living Life "In the Meantime"
I recently had breakfast with a colleague who finds himself wondering if he has one more move left in him. At the same time he wonders...
This Is My Story: Cheryl Tarter
Welcome to "This Is My Story," a new blog series dedicated to highlighting the journeys of individuals within the Polyphony Music...
The Artist's Heart
Our Polyphony annual conference is set for Thursday-Saturday, February 6-8, 2025 at Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Our...
This Is My Story: Jacob Sensenig
Welcome to "This Is My Story," a new blog series dedicated to highlighting the journeys of individuals within the Polyphony Music...
Why can't we be friends? On pastor-church musician work relationships
One of the findings from our Polyphony research initiative, The Harmony Project , was that in order to flourish in their life and...
This Is My Story: Melanie Williams
Welcome to "This Is My Story," a new blog series dedicated to highlighting the journeys of individuals within the Polyphony Music...
Choosing Music for Advent and Christmas
Sometimes I look back and I ask, What was I thinking? When I graduated from seminary with a masters degree in choral conducting, I had...
This Is My Story: Justin Addington
Welcome to "This Is My Story," a new blog series dedicated to highlighting the journeys of individuals within the Polyphony Music...
Shining the Music Ministry Spotlight on Others
At Oakland Baptist in Rock Hill where I’m interim minister of music, the adult choir has a summer tradition of taking a month off from...
We are all interims eventually
Last December my wife, Lori, and I officially joined Oakland Baptist Church in Rock Hill, South Carolina after attending worship for...
The Call: Reclaiming Your Deep Passion
Our 2024 Polyphony conference theme is “The Call: Reclaiming Your Deep Passion.” The idea for this theme comes from a casual conversation...
What's on your horizon?
A few weeks ago I was driving from Waco to Dallas. As I headed north on Interstate 35, I looked from left to right and realized I had...
Do you hear the people sing?
On a Saturday evening in August our son Christopher invited me to go with him to watch the Charlotte Football Club (CLTFC) play Los...
How healthy is your root system?
Last February we had our backyard landscaped in Rock Hill. We wanted to get plants established before the onslaught of the hot South...
Shall we still sing the choral classics in church? Part II
Should we sing the choral classics in church? Aren’t they too hard for the average church choir? And besides the technical difficulty and...
Shall we still sing the choral classics in church?
Should we still sing the classics, the time-tested anthems of the choral repertoire in worship? We expect to hear them (at least...
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