RTS at #ETS2022

Reformed Theological Seminary was everywhere at #ETS2022. Dr. Michael J. Kruger of Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, serves on the Executive Committee as a Past President of ETS. He also gave a paper and moderated a session. Dr. Greg Lanier of Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando moderated a session on the Septuagint. Dr. Guy Waters and Dr. John Fesko of Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson responded to Dr. John Piper’s new book. Dr. Jon Tweeddale (RTS Jackson grad) moderated as session on Scottish Theology. Dr. Michael Allen of…

Mother singing Handel

My mother came to Greenville, SC in the late 1950s, at the invitation of Dupre Rhame, to become a music faculty member of Furman University. For many years she sang solos in various musical productions: operas, oratorios, and the like. She had a rich contralto voice and amazing breath support (I have never heard someone who could sustain a musical phrase so beautifully for such a duration as could she). This is her singing “Behold a Virgin shall conceive” and ”O Thou that tellest good tidings to Zion” from Handel’s Messiah in December…

When singers cease to sing

Thank you to everyone who has been so kind to our family in the wake of the loss of our matriarch, Shirley Duncan, our beloved mother, sister, aunt, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend. Several of you have asked for the text of the sonnet that I quoted, written by my son, Jennings. Here it is. The sonnet is about a group of Singers singing together for the last time, and he wrote it just before his graduation from Mississippi State University, and right before his final time singing with the Mississippi State Singers (he and his roommate Eli Denson have set it to music, by the way). I liked it, and related to it, the very first time I read it, but in the wake of my mother’s death, the lines that especially caught my attention and landed in a different way are “And so…