In which Bob Dylan takes second billing

So I moonlight as a church musician at Holy Covenant UMC in Chicago. I've been working on a special service we're doing this Sunday night: what we're pretty sure is the city's first-ever Sunday service with all Bob Dylan music.

I've been stubbornly insisting that we refer to the night as "Reign of Christ Sunday featuring the music of Bob Dylan" or some such mouthful, because I'm not sure I can live with the irony of letting Jesus be upstaged on this of all liturgical days. But call it a Dylancharist or a Bobcharist if you must. (Just don't call it "A Hard Reign's Gonna Fall.")

Anyway, below is what I wrote for the church newsletter this week. I'm hoping that if I link to a papal encyclical every time they ask me to write for the newsletter, at some point they'll stop asking.