About me
Joshua Taylor is the Instructor of Sacred Music at the University of North Texas and serves as the Director of Worship & Music at First United Methodist Church in Denton, Texas.
He has presented interest sessions for numerous organizations, including The Hymn Society and for the Christian Congregational Music Conference in Oxford. He is the author of From Plague to Purpose: Sacred Wandering and the Postmodern Church (Wipf & Stock) and a co-author of A Liturgy for All Bodies (Cyclical Press) and articles in the Choral Journal, Call to Worship, Presbyterian Outlook, History of Hymns, the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, and Religions Journal.
Joshua holds the Doctor of Pastoral Music degree from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Kansas State, and a Bachelor's of Music Education from UNT.