Gentle Reign

Reflections on my life as a Christian songwriter..."remembering into the future." - by Rory Cooney

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

"Simplify" - not as easy as I thought (revisiting We Will Serve the Lord, 1986)

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  I started writing music in high school, but really practiced more and did better work when I was in college, of course. As a young man, ...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

SongStories 58: One Is the Body (GIA, Vision, 1992)

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"One is the breath of the star and the rose." It is from this line of the lyric that the cover art was imagined by my brothe...
Monday, July 30, 2018

SongStories 57: May We Be One (Communion Rite) [Praise the Maker's Love, GIA, 1993]

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Writing a communion song ranks for me among the most difficult tasks liturgical composers have, especially if we hope to say anything orig...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Repenting our inner heretic: modernist and Pelagian edition

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So I was reading a talk given by one of my favorite Scripture scholars, Walter Brueggeman, who specializes in Old Testament prophets and t...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

"What will this child be?" [Nativity of John the Baptist (June 24)]

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I confess that I don't know whether I can separate my head* and heart enough to write a coherent post, one that does what I insist we ...
Monday, June 11, 2018

SongStories 56: Psalm 1—Roots in the Earth (Vision, 1992, GIA)

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For desert folks, a permanent, flowing stream is a great symbol of divine love and protection, and if there’s a tree growing beside it, or...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Binding the Strong Man (B10O)

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I think most of us who are in the church music biz keep records going back several lectionary cycles so that, for instance, each time the ...
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