Saint Coltrane, The Church Built On A Love Supreme (NPR)

Saint Coltrane, The Church Built On A Love Supreme, an NPR Music feature by a team of five credited reporters in 2021, is an independent secondary account of the congregation's Sunday liturgy, the conch shell opening, the tenor saxophone entering the service, and the choir's recitation of Psalm 23 over the track Acknowledgement. Its strength is that it is independent journalism by a national public radio newsroom, not the congregation's own account, giving it outside corroborating value. Its limit is that it is a journalistic feature rather than a peer reviewed ethnographic or musicological study, so a deeper claim about the liturgy's theological meaning should be checked against dedicated scholarship.