Gentle Reign
Reflections on my life as a Christian songwriter..."remembering into the future." - by Rory Cooney
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
The words 2.0: Tell me again that you love me
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God, left, singing lullaby to humanity, right. "First tell them what you’re going to tell them; then tell them; and then tell them ...
Friday, October 12, 2018
The words
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I generally prepare the music for our Sunday worship 4-6 weeks in advance, not being like my show-off colleagues who have spread-sheeted t...
Friday, October 5, 2018
Taking steps to relieve world hunger
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Groovy choir members in CropWalk uniform bling. When I came to St. Anne in 1994, it didn't take me long to appreciate the far-reachi...
Thursday, September 13, 2018
The Vincentians and I
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Faculty residence, St. Mary's in Perryville. Photo by Mark Scott Abeln, 2007. Many of my readers know that as high school and colle...
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Just past the silence (Second Thoughts on "Ephphatha" - B23O)
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Open up. Break out. Snap out of it. Fly. We’re here to help: Ephphatha. Say something. Don't just sit there. No one...
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...
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