Robert S. Brunk’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Iowa Review, the Gettysburg Review, Witness, Chautauqua, and other publications. His Michigan Quarterly Review essay, “A Samuel Beckett Song,” was selected as a notable essay for Best American Essays2014.
Singing these hymns had always been construed as a form of worship, but as my allegiance to the orthodoxy of the church slowly faded, my attraction to a cappella vocal music gradually expanded.