We cannot rush through sorrow. Walking through pain and loss and grief is like walking through water—slow, hard, and exhausting. It takes time. And it takes a toll on us. We feel trapped in confusion, surrounded by chaos…
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I remember going to see a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at Zilker Park here in Austin when I was about twelve. It wasn't the first play I'd seen, but that memory sticks out to me as one where I saw the magic of theatre, and just felt a very visceral yearning to be inside that world of magic, too.
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“There is something different about this church.” Our friends, semi-retired and fully-vital, had agreed to come and invest in the ministry at Trinity for a few weeks at a time. Then they came again for a few more weeks. They kept saying, “There is something different about this church.”…
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In this episode, Blake sits down with writer, Chad Bird. They speak about his process, how it has changed over the years, and the necessity for all writers to be readers.
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Thomas Helmore & John Mason Neale
Performed by Blake Flattley
LEADER: Heavenly Father,
we come to you today
as a broken and divided people.
I was a musician first although I never would have used that word to describe being a member of a church choir and school choir and taking piano lessons. I think I would've just described myself as having a love for music…
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The Dean of the Community of Saint Anselm (COSA) and I talked on Skype. He was in his quaint study at Lambeth Palace, the home of the Archbishop of Canterbury and working centre of the Anglican Communion. I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt with my sliding glass door open…
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In this episode, Blake sits down with architect, Luke Wesselschmidt. They discuss the intersection of old and new and learning from the past.
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Text: Henry F. Lyte
Tune: William H. Monk Setting
Performance by Blake Flattley
Gracious and Heavenly Father, we come before you with contrite hearts, mindful of the great gap between how you see your Church and how we live out Your love in our lives…
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What first drew me to music and songwriting was the freedom within the whole process of both. Music happened when I was probably 9 or 10 with my best friend teaching me how to play the drums on his drumset, which progressed to…
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The first commandment with a promise is not just for the domestic home but also the divine home. Both homes are meant to have fathers and mothers. It is one of the more compelling aspects of the church that all ministry is children’s ministry…
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In this episode, Blake sits down with Elyse Fitzpatrick. Elyse is a writer, speaker, and counselor who sums up her vocation as a communicator. They discuss her the writing process, and how her different forms of communication inform each other.
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Words & Music by Heather Choate Davis
Performed by Blake Flattley
God’s grace us as broad as the world is wide,
But narrow the door to enter faith’s side…
So I’ll answer this question in two parts because I was drawn to music much earlier than I was drawn to songwriting. I started playing piano when I was 5, and I played for five years which gave me a really strong background in basic musicality…
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An early temptation was to perform. I don’t mean a song or dance. I mean, I desperately wanted to bring something of value to people’s lives. We all know pastors who are great counselors. I should be good at counseling. We all know pastors who are…
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In this episode, Blake sits down with the team behind Storymakers. They discuss the process of taking a story in written word and turning it into a fully interactive zine for kids.
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Words by John Newton & William Cwirla
Arranged by Blake Flattley