I’ve wanted to experience this ever since I saw the movie Shadowlands as a kid. For the last few hundred years on May 1, a choir at Magdalen in Oxford sings a song to welcome the dawn, and the arrival of spring. I was especially moved by the prayer (which I can’t seem to pinpoint online) thanking God for the light of morning and remembering the women who were first to see the risen Lord at dawn. Happy Eastertide, folks. | Andrew Peterson

The Behold the Lamb of God team and I went into the studio a few months back and recorded a BRAND NEW version of the album in two glorious days. Why, you ask? What’s so wrong with the old one, you ask? Nothing! Trust me, we don’t want to mess with your memories. At the same time, though, there are several million people in the world who have never heard the old one, and this was as good a time as any to breathe some new life into it, to try to capture what we’ve been doing live for years, and to

A new song. Words and Music by Andrew Peterson A White Man's Lament for the Death of God's Beloved I was walking down on Broadway In a multitude of marchers on parade There was anger, there was passion, There was mercy, there was peace yet to be made And the masks that we were wearing Kept the virus in control, or so they say And there was sickness in the air, and to be fair, It was the grief and all the grievances that plague The many years, and cause the tears on every face There are things I'