Sacred Music In Secular Culture

By Hannah Marazzi with Ben Ewert

August 10, 2018

Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi talks to musical scholar and choral director Ben Ewert about his new role creating music to remind us that “God requires worship from every part of our being, not just our emotions.”

The worship side of this position is fairly broad and pertains to whatever is happening in the church worship – be that music, liturgy, a special service, or community outreach You'll find lots of people who will talk about the value of sacred music, and how we shouldn't lose this vast tradition of music, but to find someone who is encouraging Christian artists, in particular to write, say, classical music and engage with secular culture, that strikes me C: You have degrees in sacred music, piano, choral studies, and are completing a PhD in music and conducting Apply to the music and the contents of that music and the lyrical content the same kind of standards that you would apply to someone who would come and preach at your church or your sermon content or whatever, your Bible study content C: If you could say one thing to the contemporary church about the relationship of music to their spiritual journey, what would it be?  BE: As a person who grew up in an Evangelical free type church, I was only really exposed to sacred music in a limited way

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