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Dear readers,

I apologize for neglecting this blog, but I have a pretty good excuse, or two.

But fear not, Sinden.org still has a place in all this. I owe you all a Sinden.org polemic railing against this ludicrous article from Steven Markowitz called "Digital Organs are the Future – It's Time to End the Schism" (reprinted here.)

But until then, here's a rundown of the Songs in the Desert episodes since Ash Wednesday. Each episode is around five minutes and comes from a different contributor.

• Ash Wednesday - an episode from yours truly. I introduce the Songs in the Desert project and talk about Isaac Watts's "When I survey the wondrous cross".
• Thursday after Ash Wednesday - Michael Smith, the organist and choirmaster at St. Thomas, Whitemarsh, Penn. on "Come thou fount of every blessing".
• Friday after Ash Wednesday - Derek Olsen, an Episcopal layperson and author who runs the St. Bede Blog, schools us on "The glory of these forty days".
• Monday in the First Week of Lent - The Rev. Kara Slade, newly of Trinity, Princeton, N.J., also chimes in on "Come thou fount of every blessing".
• Tuesday in the First Week of Lent - The Rev. Wallace Adams-Riley, an Episcopal priest in Richmond, Va. on "They cast their nets in Galilee".
• Wednesday in the First Week of Lent - Sumner Jenkins, the organist and choirmaster at St. Paul's, Lynchburg, Va. on "Christ mighty Savior, Light of all creation" and the Richard Dirksen tune Inisfree Farm.
• Thursday in the First Week of Lent - Mary Larew, one of my friends from college, now a composer and arts administrator living in Bristol, Conn., on the Doxology ("Praise God from whom all blessing flow").
• Friday in the First Week of Lent - Max Thornton, a parishioner of Grace Church, Newark, N.J. on "When in our music God is glorified" and finding a "new dimension" of praise with his transfigured voice.

If you like what you hear, I hope you'll check in for new episodes this week at songsinthedesert.org or subscribe to the podcast.

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