Sitemap - 2024 - Julian's Note

On Letting Go and Simplicity

New Devotional and Soundtrack Out Now

"Beside Still Waters" Devotional for Tracks 1-6

Postponing this week's working group & devotional

New Album to Help Process the Election

Listen to Beside Still Waters

A culture where we cannot entertain ourselves

A new solo piano record coming your way soon

What music has changed your life?

I thought I was losing my hearing

Announcement about my Upcoming Album

Praising God for What We Cannot See

An Elegy for the Unhoused

What the Tone of Music Can Teach Us

The Gospel According to Music Cables

Playing Gigs in Corporate Work Offices

Playing the Blues as Liberation

What if we didn't have to be the greatest?

Cracks not Doors

Communing with the ancestors

Chained to Time

Music practice as spiritual discipline

Notes on Rest, Reflections on Sleep

The Goldilocks Approach

Beautiful entanglements

To be spectacular yet never above infirmity

After a Season of Speed

With God on Our Side

Language as Desire

Candid Write-Up

Paving the way for others to do the same

Limber to do the work our souls must have

Juneteenth

Sabbath lowers anxiety

Keep the Folk Feeling Good

Letting your worlds touch

Who do you have praying for you?

Big ol' concert Jun 8!

The Glorious Presence of God

The quickness and slowness of Godspeed

When is art not excessive?

Blackness, Silence, and Palestine

Never Stepping in the Same River Twice

Gaining perspective on solitude

Rhythm sometimes requires imagination

Rest Resists Self-Righteousness

Bridges Don't Fall from the Sky, Bombs Do

Does the Presence of God Change Us?

Hopelessness Feeds Cowardice

How Sabbath Meets the Resurrection

Sundered Saturday

Good Friday and Other Menstrual Moments

Introducing Shekinah and Slowness

Gratitude and Contentment Resist Idolatry

Week 5: Sleep in Harmony

Notes of Rest through Cooking

Week 4: New Creation

Week 3: Redemption

Week 2: Fall

Wynton Kelly & the Proctor Conference

Week 1: Sleep Yields Community

You Can Always Listen Deeper

What if Christians were known by their love?

Who needs not your expertise but embrace?

Post 23: Discerning Our Musical Sanctuaries

Who all pays attention to the rest you model?

Post 22: How do your days feel?

Restraint as care

Post 21: The Scandalous Gift of Sleep

Dream Logs & Scabs Yet to Scar

Post 20: For the Nights to Come

My privilege as a church musician

Post 19: Your new life will cost you your old one

Not confusing the gift with the giver