Psalms as Musical Ballast

“Without a restoration of the psalms to an honored place in worship, our musical worship of the Lord will continue to have the gravitas of a glad bag full of styrofoam packing peanuts” - Douglas Wilson on psalm singing in Mother Kirk: Essays on Church Life (p. 138)

By popular demand, CanonWired is pleased to introduce a “Music” category (see Resources | Music ) to our ever-expanding repertoire. In this category we plan on featuring deep thoughts on music, musical resources, music itself, and pretty much anything else music-related that tickles our fancy.

As the quote above illustrates, one type of music that we think is way underrated is the singing of the psalms. And if singing psalms seems like just an abstract idea, we’d like to kick it off with this video from one of our recent congregational psalm sings (note: this is not a choir, just a congregation). While this music video needs a bit of work before it is ready for MTV, we think it does at least move psalm singing our of the abstract realm.

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