by Kurt Knecht | Sep 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Most people are surprised to learn that when you purchase printed music, the majority of the money does not go to the composer who wrote the music. I started publishing music with a reputable publishing house about 15 years ago. Since that time, my music has sold...
by Kurt Knecht | Aug 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m on a Heschel and Berdyaev kick lately. I’m returning to some of the authors that shaped me some 20 years ago. Whilst reading a Berdyaev essay tonight, I realized my central issue with the national body of the Episcopal Church suing congregations that...
by Kurt Knecht | Aug 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
I heard a rather brilliant short sermon this week from one of our seminarians. He took a text from the Hebrew Scriptures and tied up the theodicy in a very elegant package. The most striking image in his sermon was the plumb line of Amos.. We can’t ascribe an...
by Kurt Knecht | Jul 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
It is true that I don’t really watch TV. My perspective on Fox News is certainly biased. I only find out about what they are doing through Twitter. Amazingly enough, something that went viral actually interested me, though maybe not directly....
by Kurt Knecht | Jul 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
I don’t always have the chance to work in larger forms. One of my current writing projects is a one woman short opera on Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love. I’m writing it for my dear friend Rebecca Shane, and I can’t wait to...
by Kurt Knecht | Jul 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
I am still reflecting deeply on Krista Tippet’s interview with Christian Wiman, the editor of Poetry Magazine. In the interview, Wiman references a few familiar passages from Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison. From p. 281, “I often...
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