Ponder Anew (EPUB) von Jessica Nelson

Through a thoughtfully curated collection of essays, interviews, and sermons, Ponder Anew raises the questions church musicians should be considering as the church lives into its third millennium.

Foreword | The Rev. Dr. William Bradley Roberts

Introduction | Jessica Nelson

I. Essays

1. How Can I Keep from Singing: On Music As Pastoral Care | The Rev. Jennifer M. Deaton

2. Tablets and Technology: Liturgy and Music in the Information Age | David Sinden

3. Story of Stories: The Language of Story in Song | The Rt. Rev. Deon Johnson

4. You Will See Rare Beasts and Have Unique Adventures: Considering Again the Clergy/Musician Relationship | Jessica Nelson

5. Celebrating One Another’s Way of Worship | Keith Tan

6. A Shift in Tension: Leveraging Music Programs for Evangelism and Formation | Michael Smith

7. Reckoning with the Anglican Inheritance: Stories from the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard | The Rev. Rita T. Powell

8. Colonialism in Church Music | Ellis Montes

II. Conversations in Vocation

1. Claim the High Calling: Conversations in Vocation

2. Musicians in Bivocational Ministry

III. Sermons

1. A sermon preached by The Rev. Erika Takacs at the closing Eucharist of the 2013 Mississippi Conference on Church Music and Liturgy

2. A sermon preached by The Rev. Erika Takacs at the closing Eucharist of the 2019 annual conference of the Association of Anglican Musicians

3. “The Two Calls,” a sermon preached by The Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton at the opening Eucharist of the 2014 annual conference of the Association of Anglican Musicians

4. A sermon preached by The Rev. Canon Carl F. Turner at the 50th anniversary annual conference of the Association of Anglican Musicians

5. A sermon preached in two parts by The Rev. Andrew Mead and The Rev. Canon John Andrew at the Requiem Eucharist for Gerre Hancock

6. A sermon preached by The Rev. Dr. Katherine A. Grieb at the funeral of Ray Glover