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  • Description: ...ils", as part of the series "Credo", on the occasion of Celebration of 30 years of John Bryson as Director of Music and Fine Arts, Trinity Sunday, Pentecost II, at Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI. Scripture references: Isaiah 6:1, Revelation 1:17....
  • Text: ...God: The Feeling That Remains Where the Concept Fails From the series: Credo A Celebration of the Music of the Church and Thirty Years of John G. Bryson As Director of Music and Fine Arts Isaiah 6:1; Revelation 1:17 Richard A. Rhem Christ Community Church Spring Lake, Michigan Trin...
God: The Feeling That Remains Where the Concept Fails

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  • Text: The artist uses the same instrument to create music, melody, harmony. And I can also sense that the execution of a musical score unfolds - the immediate moment following on what has preceded and flowing into what follows.
Divine Improvisation - Human Wonder

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  • Text: ...I mentioned Arie’s funeral in December during Advent. He had become fascinated with Greek Orthodox liturgy and the music of worship of the Eastern Rite. And the funeral service began with a long prelude of entrance music and then the service ensued. The point at which we would co...
My God, ...Why?

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  • Text: ...Today, Father, we are especially mindful of and deeply grateful for the sound of music, © Grand Valley State University   Autumn Prayer, 1982 Richard A. Rhem for the elevation of our spirits through all forms of artistic expression: for human voice and the sound of instruments, fo...
Autumn Prayer for Artists and Creators 1982

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  • Text: ...(He did the Hebrew parts.) In my little meditation, I said, “One of my favorite musicals is Fiddler on the Roof, and when I first experienced it as a musical, I loved it. Someone asked about the significance of the fiddler, and I was embarrassed to say I didn’t have the slighte...
Citation & Response On Receiving the First Sylvia Kaufman Interfaith Leadership Award

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  • Text: He must realize that, like a gypsy, he lives on the boundary of an alien world; a world that is deaf to his music, and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his sufferings or his crimes (Chance and Necessity, p. 160). That is an excellent statement representing clear, concise thinking.
The Vision of Faith

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  • Text: ...n the great chorus of Alleluia and praise with the closing cry, "Grant us Thy peace." And as I heard that stirring music, the music itself communicating as much as the words, and I thought about the world in convulsion, I thought to myself - the world in convulsion seems ...
World Convulsion and the Exciting Vision of Faith

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  • Text: ...I’ll spend probably three hours tonight on next Sunday morning. I have the pieces from Mr. Bryson, I know what music will be involved and whether there’ll be dance or whatever, and then I will simply live into that experience, trying to weave it together in such a way that it has a cert...
The Awe of Worship

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  • Text: ...(He did the Hebrew parts.) In my little meditation, I said, “One of my favorite musicals is Fiddler on the Roof, and when I first experienced it as a musical, I loved it. © 2013 Kaufman Interfaith Institute and Grand Valley State University Religion: Response to Mystery Rich...
Religion: Response To Mystery Emerging Naturally

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  • Text: ...Rhem the voice of that awareness, creating poems that paint pictures with words, writing music that lifts our spirits in worship and sets our feet to dancing, celebrating the wonder of it all. And still we have only begun to touch the depths of our human experience, for we have not yet spo...
Prayer during Group Tour in Nauplia, Greece

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  • Text: ... this theological journal and we went out to eat and then someone said, "There is an Irish tavern where they sing Irish music," and so we all went. In the back room, filled with people, all these Irishmen. I didn't say I was Dutch; I just sort of slipped into a booth. They br...
Christ Community: A People Who Belong

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  • Text: ... a martyr; he was, rather, the Lamb of God destined before the foundations of the world to die for the sin of the world. The music we have just heard sung by the choir is lovely, © Grand Valley State University   Harmless Religion: Loss of Soul Richard A. Rhem Page 2   but the...
Harmless Religion: Loss of Soul