De profundis: Lament in Worship

If we come into God’s presence as whole persons, we come burdened with illness, grief, and confusion as well as with joy; with regrets and sorrows as well as with thanksgiving. Posting about ­­­­­­­­honest faith from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation. https://inallthings.org/de-profundis-lament-in-worship

On Musical Excellence

This article was originally presented at the Conference of Christian College Coalition Music Faculties in March, 1992, on the campus of Anderson College, Anderson, Indiana

Part II - De Profundis: Deep Personal Grief Precipitates Musical Masterpieces

Editor\u27s Note: This is Part II of Dr. DeMol\u27s article. See the March 2022 issue for Part I

Vermeer Music Manuscript

Information about the gift of a page from a16th century illustrated music manuscript which was given to Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, and housed in the John and Louise Hulst Library

Estate Planning: Psalms and Hymns for a Lifetime

Singing classics of the faith that have been \u27keepers\u27 for decades and centuries enables the various generations within a congregation to sing together, strongly. Posting about the rich heritage of classic hymns from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation. https://inallthings.org/estate-planning-psalms-and-hymns-for-a-lifetime

Prototype Packages for Managing and Animating Longitudinal Network Data: dynamicnetwork and rSoNIA

Work with longitudinal network survey data and the dynamic network outputs of the statnet ERGMs has demonstrated the need for consistent frameworks and data structures for expressing, storing, and manipulating information about networks that change in time. Motivated by our requirements for exchanging data among researchers and various analysis and visualization processes, we have created an R package dynamicnetwork that builds upon previous work in the network, statnet and sna packages and provides a limited functional implementation. This paper discusses design issues and considerations, describes classes and forms of dynamic data, and works through several examples to demonstrate the utility of the package. The functionality of the rSoNIA package that uses dynamicnetwork to exchange data with the Social Network Image Animator (SoNIA) software to create animated movies of changing networks from within R is also demonstrated.

Christian Voices in Musicology: A Report

This report was presented at a Dordt College Faculty Forum, April 23, 2009, in preparation for a summer seminar at Calvin College