Dr. Rebecca Erickson

Rebecca Erickson is a singer, educator, conductor, researcher, and poet. She accepted the call to Holy Spirit Episcopal Church to become the Missional Music Coordinator because its scope and vision powerfully aligned with a conviction which has crystallized over the course of her life: communities that sing together listen to one another. Being raised in the Episcopal Church, her understanding of human nature as related to the divine is that our lives on Earth are only meant as energetic conduits for God’s Grace, Mercy and Truth to enter creation. Rebecca believes in creating and holding space for humans to hear one in their musicking together. She knows also that this is how humans, unstrung from the music of their own lives, rediscover their creative voices. Humans capable of listening to one another and singing to one another through connection to their authentic voices become the sources of godly community.

The depth of Rebecca’s training in versatile facets of musicking—teaching, performing, arranging and composing, and scholarship—inform a lived praxis she wants to apply to tuning human communities to each other in song and service to God’s will to have them love one another... And so build the kingdom here.