Dr. Richard Bruxvoort Colligan is a longtime musician, composer, liturgical theologian, and author of Dangerous Songs: The Psalms and a Gloriously Disrupted Life. Trough his career, his congregational songs have been published by the ELCA, PC(USA), UCC, and UMC. With a passion for community singing and the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible, he has written songs for all 150 Psalms and has published over fifteen collections of original songs.

A graduate of Luther College, he earned his MA in Theology and the Arts from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, and his DMin from Eden Seminary in St. Louis.

Richard lives in Rochester, MN with his wife Trish. There he serves Mount Olive Lutheran Church as Director of Spiritual Formation.