Cowden Hall: 100 Years
Volume 13
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May 27, 2026
Editor
Joshua A. Waggener
Professor of Church Music and Worship at Southwestern Seminary
As one approaches Cowden Hall (from any direction), he or she may notice names chiseled in stone around the top of the building. These names begin just to the right of the grand front entrance of the building on the north side and wrap around the building beginning in a westward direction. In total, there are thirty-one names representing biblical figures (from Jubal to Simeon), early church fathers (Clement, Basil, and Ambrose), significant people who influenced church music in the middle ages and early modern periods (from Pope Gregory the Great to Martin Luther), famous composers (including Palestrina, Bach, and Handel), and numerous hymnists and composers from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries (e.g., Keach, Watts, Wesley, Mason, and Sankey).
This issue of the Artistic Theologian continues to commemorate the figures whose names are encountered when one walks by Cowden Hall.
Associate Editors
- Joseph Crider, Dean and Professor of Church Music and Worship in the School of Church Music and Worship at Southwestern Seminary
- R. Allen Lott, Senior Professor of Music History at Southwestern Seminary
- Charles T. Lewis, Associate Dean of the School of Church Music and Worship and Professor of Church Music and Worship at Southwestern Seminary
