Author: Christina B.

An introduction to this “In Isolation” blog series appears at the top of the March 22 post. Good Friday. Choosing a piece of music to feature today should be easy. There is no shortage of resources on my own website, as well as from thousands of other sources, which contain appropriate direct references to this […]

An introduction to this “In Isolation” blog series appears at the top of the March 22 post. Fair warning: There’s nothing light in today’s post. So, if you’re seeking something to lift your ‘sick-and-tired-of-isolation’ mood, this probably isn’t it. Yesterday I found myself thinking about Judas. A lot. His role in the story is a […]

An introduction to this “In Isolation” blog series appears at the top of the March 22 post. I’m late getting today’s entry uploaded. Among a host of other tasks, today I uploaded reflections from Walter Farquharson about “Stay with Us” to which I’ve written some introductory comments. I urge readers to visit the song at […]

An introduction to this “In Isolation” blog series appears at the top of the March 22 post. Hearts in windows and taped to doors were far more visible today as we walked down the centre of our neighbourhood streets. No cars, so why not? To say nothing of how utterly rebellious or adolescent it felt. […]

An introduction to this “In Isolation” blog series appears at the top of the March 22 post. We’ve just entered what may be the darkest ‘Holy Week’ that most of us will ever encounter. Most Holy Weeks are squeezed in amongst all the mundane trappings of our lives. Few of us really ‘get’ the feelings […]

An introduction to this “In Isolation” blog series appears at the top of the March 22 post. Wow! It’s Palm Sunday and I’m not playing a processional! Truth be told, I was always glad I was a musician on this day because it meant I didn’t have to stroll around the perimeter of the sanctuary […]

An introduction to this “In Isolation” blog series appears at the top of the March 22 post. It is fairly common practice that, when hymnbooks are assembled, the selected song and hymn titles are determined by the first line of the text. There is good justification for this on numerous counts. However, I believe that […]