Nathan Myrick

Nathan Myrick is an ethnomusicologist and theological ethicist. Prior to becoming a professional nerd, Myrick was rock musician who toured extensively in the early 2000s. Income for a small-time rock musician being what it has always been, he wore several hats of employment, including as a window service technician, gas station attendant, machine shop operator, and meat wrapper at a small-town butcher. He has since produced two musical albums, the Silence (2010) and Believable Lies (2014), and also worked as a screenwriter for a small production company in Los Angeles, where he helped produce a TV pilot.

Myrick is an avid writer, and has published numerous articles and book chapters. His work has been published in a variety of venues, including The Yale Journal of Music and Religion, Liturgy, The Hymn, Bloomsbury Academic, UMC Discipleship, and HM Magazine. He is the author of Music for Others: Care, Justice, and Relational Ethics in Christian Music (Oxford University Press, 2021), and the Series Editor of “Music Matters” for Ethics Daily. He is co-editor of Ethics and Christian Musicking, a forthcoming volume on Routledge’s Congregational Music Studies series, and is also co-editing a festschrift in honor of David W. Music. Additionally, he is the director of the Music and Human Flourishing Research Project, which is underwritten by a Vital Worship Grant from the Calvin Institute for Christian Worship, with funds provided by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.