by Dan Ouellette
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While Daniel Lanois isn’t well-known as a solo artist, in the past four decades he has become recognized as a renowned genius for imparting his alt-eclectic producing touch on high-profile projects.
I think it’s safe to say that our Western culture tends to privilege sight over sound. In this issue of Radix you will be invited to think a little further about the role that sound plays in the experience of our interior and exterior world.
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Stephen Roberts titles himself a practical theologian. This is cause enough for serious interest. After all, there is something fresh and grand about an academic specialist who goes beyond the bookish aspects (the theory) and moves into the praxis (the practical). Going further than the mere theoretical can bring a good degree of credibility, and it certainly does for Dr. Roberts. As a person who is interested in the relationship between theology and music – he is also a saxophonist who plays regularly in the band Wonderbrass – Stephen, in this interview, shares a number of his insights about the
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Sarah and Chris Young aren’t especially unusual: they have traveled extensively; have both been to college (Chris is in the process of finishing his MDiv. at Berkeley School of Theology); enjoy a variety of music; are intellectually curious; and have evolving thoughts about the important roles of culture and theology. As we talked, it was also evident that we shared similar ideas on the importance of community and how that relates to the Church. There were also their stories on some of the difficulties that we as human beings all share in life – struggles dealing with the expectations of
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As a prison chaplain working at a correctional institute in Ontario, Canada, John Ilkka knows a little about the proper caring for souls. As a Catholic Christian, he also has some especially interesting insights into not only the religious needs of the inmates that he serves but also the environment of prison life in general. In this interview John talks, among other things, about the importance that sound plays in both his role and the lives of those he is assisting. [Radix] The word attending has been coming up a lot recently, and I am certain that it will be
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A poem by Peter Lilly
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by Arthur Aghajanian
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Resurrection does not only apply to the body of Jesus. It is the cosmic pattern of life. In every death there is a transformation, and when suffering leads us to God we are born anew, just as it was with Jesus after his crucifixion. As an eternal process, there is no separation between incarnation, death, and renewal.
by Talita Jolene
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The natural flow from music to ear to heart to embodied response is so innocently exhibited in childhood humanity. When what we hear connects with us deeply, in the heart, there is an inner spiritual resonance that, if allowed, will find outward embodied expression, reciprocating and amplifying the original signal.
by Alex Strohschein
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Across the West, Christianity is in decline. Some welcome this change – a smaller Church means a purer Church (this might be most indicative of H. Richard Niebuhr's "Christ against culture" paradigm). Even Pope Benedict XVI, writing in 1969, prophesied that "From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge—a Church that has lost much.