By Richard Knox We live in a secular society -- who can deny it? We’re marked by our relentless focus on materialism and preoccupation with what established religions call “worldly” concerns. Recent statistics bear this out. In the early-1950s nearly half of all Americans went to church regularly. Today fewer than a third do. And yet, lately the nation has been seeing a rise in the proportion of Americans who identify as “spiritual but not religious.” About seven in ten peop

By Richard Knox   The concert begins in the personal voice of a Romantic poem set as a German Lied, or art-song. Such choral Lieder make...

By Richard Knox A blogger I follow is an amateur astronomer and celestial photographer. His main mission is politics, but at the end of...

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”                                           --- Henry David Thoreau   By Richard Knox   OK,...

By Richard Knox Every last one of us has had, or will have, an encounter with the Sacred Veil of which the New Hampshire Master Chorale...