EC-101 (1971) For a departure from the recent postings, this one and the next feature albums from Puerto Rico. The recent election of a Latin American Pope has put the spotlight on this largely Roman Catholic world, but Latin America also has a strong Evangelical and Pentecostal presence, one that is changing both Latin America …
Ending Well (Hopefully) for Truro Anglican
Seeing this was heartening: Truro Anglican's bishop, +John Guernsey, finally pulls the plug on Truro's rector Tory Baucum's "reconciliation" with Episcopal bishop Shannon Johnston. This was doubtless a hard pill for Baucum to swallow (as one could feel in his response) but that's what happens in situations like this. It's good to note that the …
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Scientific Pope, Unscientific President
Amidst all the adulation surrounding the elevation of Jorge Bergoglio to become Pope Francis I, there is one thing that many overlook: that he started out his academic career as a chemist. New Atheists would have us believe that scientific education will make us like them. But this is only true when we make science …
Sebastian Temple: Sing! People of God, Sing!
St. Francis SFPS-2 (1967) Up to now the early post-Vatican II albums have come from the U.S. But there was activity in this field in the U.K. also, and probably the best known artist/song writer to get things started was Sebastian Temple. Born in South Africa, he emigrated to the UK, where he spent many …
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Sister Germaine: Songs of Salvation
FEL 810F-6242 (1966) One of the early "sensations" of the post-Vatican II Catholic music world was the young nun Sister Germaine Habjan, who produced this album of songs and narrative (Episcopal ministers Ian Mitchell and Frederick Gere also included narrative) based on Scripture and other sources. By later standards it's a plain album, but it's …
Truro, Baucum, Johnston and the Occupational Hazard of Anglicanism
As we march through this Lenten season, complete with the silliness over the sequester and the post-modern version of the Great Refusal, we come to yet another saga in the Anglican/Episcopal world--the volte-face that has taken place by the Truro Anglican Church and its rector, Tory Baucum, vis-Ã -vis the Episcopal Bishop of Virginia, Shannon Johnston. …
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Peter Scholtes: They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love
FEL S-252 (1968) Anyone who has rummaged (physically or virtually) through the discography of the "Jesus Music" era usually has strong ideas about which albums and artists affected them personally, and which ones changed the course of the life of the church. For Evangelicals, artists such as Larry Norman, Phil Keaggy or the Second Chapter …
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The 10:15: Making Tracks
no label 2345 (1970) Some people will find the connection between "folk music" and "the Bronx" akin to salsa coming from New York City, but here it is anyway. This album, produced right about the time the Novus Ordo Missae was made official, is a rambling folk album whose style is, in many ways, more …
Wendy Vickers: Sow a Seed
Epoch VII WV01 (1974) Most people associate post-Vatican II Catholic music with the folk Mass type music that's featured regularly on this blog. But there were some exceptions, and this album--and artist--was one of them. This is a very good, straightforward folk album, more like (as Ken Scott points out in Archivist) Maranatha artists Karen …
Water, Wind and Fire: Songs By Sisters
CAVS/Fountain FTN 2506 (1977) Folk albums by nuns were fairly common in the 1960's and 1970's; this site features Roman Catholic religious such as Juliana Garza and the School Sisters of Notre Dame. This one, however, is different in one important respect: the sisters are Anglican. Two of them were of the Community of the …
Positive Infinity 