I speak and write in various settings in church and academy, and for general audiences.
Here are a few sermons, addresses, articles, blogs, podcasts, public lectures, and so on.
Singing to the Risen Son: A History of Christian Hymns
I wrote up a public lecture I have sometimes given on the history of Christian hymn-singing. My theme is from the early second century, when the Roman governor Pliny the Younger described a group of Christians singing “a hymn to Christ as to a god.”
Was He Too Prone to Wander?
An article I wrote on the hymnwriter, Robert Robinson, who wrote, “Come Thou Fount of Ev’ry Blessing.”