Singing About Jesus’ Blood Is Weird, But We Do It Anyway

Even if Elevation’s Easter invites don’t spotlight the Crucifixion, it remains central to their worship.
I still remember the crunchy, dissonant chords coming through the speakers of my music history classroom and the repetition of the phrase, “Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?”We were studying Charles Ives’s modern American art song about the founder of the Salvation Army—“General William Booth Enters into Heaven”—and even as I tried