MATTHEW WESTERHOLM:

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mwesterholm — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:21:32 +0000

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Jazz Piano Recital

mwesterholm — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:54:17 +0000

I’m giving a faculty recital on October 1st. Please come! Info is here.

Cornerstone presents Matthew Westerholm in a faculty recital, featuring the music of Duke Ellington, Tadd Dameron, Mulgrew Miller, and Wynton Marsalis. Mr. Westerholm will be joined by drummer Max Colley III, bassist Joel Negus, and vocalist Caitlin Maurer.

The event also marks the re-opening of Cornerstone’s recital space after a summer of improvements.

“Church membership either turns you into a servant, or proves to you that you’re not one.”

mwesterholm — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:46:11 +0000

—Mark Dever

http://t4g.org/2006/01/church-membership-the-archbishop-my-canon-of-theologians/

Interview with Jeremy Begbie

mwesterholm — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:49:53 +0000

The key thing is to be curious, to be prepared to learn. Most of us think the most important thing to ask when we hear music is “Do I like it?” A much better question is “What’s going on here?”

Read the whole thing: http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2011/6/7/minister-of-music

Barth on the Futility of “Self-Emptying”

mwesterholm — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:56:06 +0000

“There is nothing, nothing at all, to justify the belief that God has created us for the practice of this self-emptying, or that it has to be recognised [sic] and adopted as the way to reconciliation with God. When a man ventures to make this experiment, where does he find himself but in the enclosed circle of his proud being and activity? If faith in its negative form is indeed an emptying, then it is certainly an emptying of all the results of such practices of self-emptying. It begins at the point where all the works of man are at an end, including his quiescence and silence and anticipatory dying. Christian faith is the day whose dawning means the end of the mystical night.”

Karl Barth, CD IV.1, 629.