The interior of the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. I am back for a special occasion edition of The Itinerant Chorister, after traveling to London over Thanksgiving. Although I didn't participate in singing with a choir, I attended the Thanksgiving Day Service for the American Community in London ...
Brent Lofgren, a climate scientist by profession, has spent the past year or so as a roving minstrel of sorts. Since the end of last summer, he has visited more than 20 different houses of worship, and for 15 of those, he rehearsed and sang with their choirs. His travels ...
This week The Itinerant Chorister visited and sang in the men's choir at New Hope Baptist Church at 218 Chapin, just west of downtown Ann Arbor. A theme that was woven through the worship was hope in the face of adversity, including a song called "Hallelujah Anyhow," which in my ...
This week's visit by the Itinerant Chorister to a house of worship involved no choir, but included a bit of chanting in traditional Buddhist style. The Zen Buddhist Temple at 1214 Packard St. in Ann Arbor teaches a pragmatic faith, which includes such things as saying that if you are ...
This week, the Itinerant Chorister was at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church at 306 N. Division St. in Ann Arbor. There were seventeen pieces of music that were part of the service, excluding things that were only a phrase long or so. And the music spanned time periods of nearly five ...
This week's Itinerant Chorister visit was at Dixboro United Methodist Church at 5221 Church Road in Dixboro. It was founded and built in 1858, and combines a sense of history with a forward-looking attitude, given its location in an area where Ann Arbor is expanding eastward and the Detroit suburbs ...
In addition to the previous post on the Unitarian Universalist Church, the Itinerant Chorister also visited the Jain Temple in Farmington Hills this week. Jainism is a minority religion in India with non-violence at its core. Although not a Jain himself, Mahatma Gahdhi was deeply influenced by its teachings. Read ...
This week, the Itinerant Chorister visited the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Ann Arbor at 4001 Ann Arbor-Saline Road. This church uses wisdom from a variety of sources, including Ralph Waldo Emerson saying, "God is, not was." Their choir, known as the Chalice Singers, sings challenging music and leads a ...
This is a gallery of scenes from Zion Lutheran Church at 1501 W. Liberty St. in Ann Arbor, on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010. Easter lilies decorate the chancel of Zion Lutheran Church.
This is a set of photographs from Zion Lutheran Church at 1501 W. Liberty St., Ann Arbor, on Palm Sunday, March 28, 2010.The Bibleland Sunday School group sings at Zion Lutheran Church. They are led by Shelley Klippel, with Rotimi playing the role of Jesus. Brent Lofgren is an Ann ...
This week The Itinerant Chorister did not sing, but instead participated in silent meditation at the Ann Arbor Friends Meeting at 1420 Hill Street. The Friends are also known as the Quakers, and offer a method of worship that is likely to be enlightening to many, although your level of ...
This week, the Itinerant Chorister visited Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in Boulder, Colo. I spent a year living only about a block from this church, but a lot has changed there in the three years since I was there. Read more
The Itinerant Chorister this week sang in the One Voice Gospel Choir during their appearance at the Webster United Church Of Christ at 5484 Webster Church Road, north of Dexter. This is a very enthusiastic and busy choir, who perform in various venues and have traveled to Europe several times. ...
Old St. Patrick churchThe Itinerant Chorister sang this week at Old St. Patrick Church on Whitmore Lake Road north of Ann Arbor, amid a sardine-packed crowd of young boys. This choir sings together only on an occasional basis, so really everyone is an itinerant chorister. Their director puts an emphasis ...
One of the laws of quantum mechanics is that by observing or measuring an object, such as a subatomic particle, the observer influences what it does. This week, the Itinerant Chorister visited Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Tecumseh, and the director of that choir made it clear that he was ...
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