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Hi! I’m Adam Brooks Webber. If you’re not already on The Merry Mystic mailing list, I’d like to convince you to sign up. You’ll get occasional emails about my new work, much of which is available through this site. When you sign up, I’ll send you a password to my Free Stuff area, which includes lots of free sheet music and other resources. If the emails don’t turn out to interest you, you can unsubscribe whenever you like. (And keep the Free Stuff password, of course.)

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Free Stuff

My sheet music and other free resources are available here. Just follow this link.

These things are under a Creative Commons license that allows you to download them and copy them freely—for any non-commercial use.

Enjoy!

Store

I have books, CDs, and a video series for sale from my store page. (I wish I could just give everything away, but one must eat!)

I’m especially excited about my new book, now available: My Burden Is Light: A Pastor’s Plea for Rationality, Honesty, and Humility.

About

Adam Brooks Webber
Adam Brooks Webber
When I was a boy, I couldn’t wait to grow up so that I could A) move away from small-town Illinois and B) stop going to church. Consequently, I am now a pastor in a small town in Illinois.

Merry, Mystical Missives

Here you’ll find everything I’ve sent out to the mailing list for The Merry Mystic.

The Dark Night (I Miss You, My Friend)

Hello, Merry Mystics! Here’s a song that’s more mystical than merry.

This Sunday, I’m teaching my congregation about St. John of the Cross. We’ll read his poem “The Dark Night,” and I’ll summarize some of his extensive commentary about the “dark night of the soul.” I think most of us have had times when God feels distant—I know I have. (So did Jesus, according to the crucifixion stories in Mark and Matthew. And so did the author(s) of a number of the Psalms, like 10, 22, and 34.)

Anyway, I wrote this song to go with that teaching.

Well, actually, it sounds sort of rational when I put it that way, but the truth is that the idea for the song came to me first, out of the blue, while I was looking out the window on a flight at the start of a week’s vacation. When I got home again, I planned the sermon to go with the song.

The song is called “The Dark Night (I Miss You, My Friend)”. I’ll put sheet music for it in our Free Stuff area.

By |July 18, 2025|Categories: music, The Merry Mystic|5 Comments
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Slow Me Down

Hello, Merry Mystics!

Here’s a hymn I wrote to go with my sermon, “Kairos Bathing”. I got the idea for this hymn on a Thursday, to go with the sermon I was writing for that Sunday. Thanks for the inspiration, God … but would it be too much to ask for a little more lead time?! The sheet music is here:

Slow Me Down

Slow Me Down (voice)

There’s also a video of it here, with Ron McCutchan singing and Charlie Gebeck accompanying.

Bright blessings,

Adam

By |July 7, 2025|Categories: music, The Merry Mystic|4 Comments
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Whoopee-Worthy Piffle-Pushers

Hello, my merry and mystical friends!

How do you respond to an egregious liar? I don’t mean someone who says something wrong, but then will blush when confronted with the truth; I mean someone who is completely unmoored from the truth. I mean a piffle-pusher—like so many people in Washington right now.

In the series of videos I’ve just done on TikTok, I’ve suggested a perfect tool for responding to piffle-pushers.

Whoopee cushion, anyone?

By |July 2, 2025|Categories: The Merry Mystic|0 Comments
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These are the (mostly video) messages sent out to The Merry Mystic mailing list.

Sermons and Such

Every week, I preach in the Open Prairie United Church of Christ in Princeton, Illinois. I’m not sending most of these out to The Merry Mystic mailing list; but on the outside chance you’d like to see a sermon, here they are.

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