Category Archives: Calvinism

Beauty Matters…Even for Conservatives

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Micah Everett

The title of this post might be strange enough to generate interest, but I will begin with a statement that isn’t strange at all. I went into music for two reasons: I was good at it, and I enjoyed it. … Continue reading →

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“A Well-Regulated or Orderly Church Music…”

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Micah Everett

I have heard that the price of becoming a thinking adult is the need to deal with all of the paradoxes and inconsistencies that life presents, the cognitive dissonance that is inevitably present as we flawed and fallen humans do … Continue reading →

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You’re Never Going to Know Everything (But You Still Should Try), Part Two

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Micah Everett

Last week I wrote discussing how I had come to terms with—and in fact really embraced—the idea that my knowledge of music, brass pedagogy, and basically everything about my profession should be always growing but will never reach completion. There … Continue reading →

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Fundamentals, Not Feelings: Part Two

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Micah Everett

For as long as we can remember my wife and I have had an occasional feeling of being “ecclesiastical misfits.” We often discuss a sense of differentness at church or parachurch gatherings, even among fellow believers with whom we are … Continue reading →

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Our “Unprecedented” Situation

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Micah Everett

As this post is being written and published the 2016 American presidential election is now more than two weeks past, and much to the chagrin of seemingly everyone the drama, division, and discontent that permeated the campaign have not diminished … Continue reading →

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