Tuesday May 5th, 2026 7:00 pm
Kutztown Tavern, 272 W Main St Kutztown

Join Dr. Deborah Justice, author of “(White)Washing Our Sins Away: American Mainline Churches, Music, Power, and Diversity”, for a discussion of how your worship music options reflect and shape how you relate to the divine and fellow humans. How do our musical choices in worship reflect our values? How do these choices shape our values? Everything from the type of musical instruments we use to employing hymnals vs projected lyrics creates a worship culture. My research has isolated three areas impacted by musical choices in worship: the sacred, the sonic, and the social.

Dr. Justice is an ethnomusicologist who studied and researched at Wesleyan University, Indiana University, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and Syracuse University. Dr. Justice’s career shifted to university concert management, beginning at Cornell University and moving to Kutztown’s concert series last year. She spends most of her time running around after her young son and two cats.

This will be our last Theology with a Twist for the season. We will begin our next season on Tuesday October 6