Presbyterian Mission Agency routley lecturer Archives

The Routley Lecturer at PAM’s Worship & Music Conference asks his audience to critique his work

Posted June 19th, 2023

It takes a special and secure hymn writer to stand in front of a packed classroom and ask those gathered to tell you why a hymn for which you penned the lyrics doesn’t work.

Breathing, singing and listening to God ‘calling for us’

Posted June 28th, 2022

Singing begins with breath. With those words, the Rev. Dr. David Gambrell began his Routley lectures for the week.

Servants’ Entrance

Posted November 4th, 2021

For a minister of music who’s also a choral music and conducting professor, Tom Trenney is a born storyteller. During the fourth of his five Routley Lectures delivered to the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship and Music Conference, Trenney told this story about a man he’s long admired, the Presbyterian pastor and children’s television pioneer Fred Rogers.

Servants’ Entrance

Posted July 1st, 2021

For a minister of music who’s also a choral music and conducting professor, Tom Trenney is a born storyteller.

Words matter

Posted July 1st, 2021

To prove his assertion that, in music and in other life pursuits, words matter, Tom Trenney led off his Routley lecture Wednesday with examples of paraprosedokians — sentences that begin innocently enough, then veer off in unexpected directions.

‘I can’t believe I get to be part of something so beautiful’

Posted June 29th, 2021

It’s Tom Trenney’s job to deliver the Routley Lecture each day this week during the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship and Music Conference. Rather than lecture students meeting both in person at Montreat Conference Center and online during his opening talk on Monday, Trenney told them a story from a few years back about a college student of his named Summer.

‘Attending with faithfulness to the church’s worship and community’

Posted June 21st, 2021

The first-ever hybrid version of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship and Music Conference began in person Sunday from Montreat Conference Center and includes an entirely online offering June 27 through July 2. View the conference livestream schedule here. Register for the online conference here.