{"id":4896,"date":"2025-01-10T16:09:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:14:57","slug":"playlist-behold-im-doing-a-new-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/playlists\/playlist-behold-im-doing-a-new-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Playlist: Behold, I&#8217;m doing a new thing!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The January\/February 2025 issue of <em>Messenger<\/em> includes articles on 500 years of anabaptism and the story of Conrad Beissel at Ephrata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brethren Historical Library and Archives staff curated a related playlist of music for the new year in the spirit of Conrad Beissel, an early German-American colonial spiritualist. Beissel developed a new system of musical composition notable for disjointed rhythms and atonal style. &nbsp;Beissel&#8217;s a cappella was akin to today&#8217;s DIY indie genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To listen to the Spotify list, you will need to create a (free) account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"spotify-playlist\">Spotify playlist<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/5u4iz3q3sl1HZVOdZRwil4?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"youtube-playlist\">YouTube playlist<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Behold, I&#039;m Doing a New Thing\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLPwg6iPFotfiIsRT5OTymN1pCw6V0FIRJ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/Messenger-contents-2025-1.jpg\" alt=\"Table of contents for the January\/February 2025 issue of Messenger\" class=\"wp-image-4897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/Messenger-contents-2025-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/Messenger-contents-2025-1-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Table of contents for the January\/February issue of <\/em>Messenger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/digital\/\">January\/February issue of <em>Messenger<\/em><\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/subscribe\/\">only available to subscribers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have thoughts on these playlists? Send an email to <a href=\"mailto:messenger@brethren.org\">messenger@brethren.org<\/a> to make comments or suggestions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would you like to curate a playlist for a future issue of <em>Messenger<\/em>? &nbsp;Let us know at <a href=\"mailto:messenger@brethren.org\">messenger@brethren.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music for the new year in the spirit of Conrad Beissel, notable for a capella disjointed rhythms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396],"tags":[653,652,649,530,407,410],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playlists","tag-a-cappella","tag-conrad-beissel","tag-ephrata","tag-history","tag-music","tag-playlist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4905,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/4905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}