“Hymn Festival of the Trinity” on November 23, 2025 at 7:00PM with a Meet and Greet reception preceding the concert at 6:00PM. In addition to John Sabine and the Saint John’s Parish Choir, the Rev. Dr. Don Saliers will join them to comment on the hymns they are singing and to comment on what the Council of Nicaea did and how it still affects the Church today. 2025 marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.

Don E. Saliers (born 1937), ordained in the United Methodist Church, is an American pianist, organist, poet, composer, and theologian specializing in homiletics and liturgics. Saliers joined the Emory University faculty in 1974. He was the William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship at the Candler School of Theology of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to teaching theology and worship, he directed the Master of Sacred Music program there. He has also taught at Notre Dame, St. John’s University, Vancouver School of Theology, and Boston College. Although he retired from Candler in 2007, Dr. Saliers returned to Candler as Theologian-in-Residence in 2015.Among the twenty-four books Saliers has written, are several on the relationship between theology and worship practices. He also co-authored A Song to Sing, a Life to Live with his daughter Emily Saliers, a member of the folk-rock music duo Indigo Girls. Saliers has served as president of the North American Academy of Liturgy and the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality and has been a chaplain to the American Guild of Organists.