*Although screen monitors are used these days, I remember the interaction while sharing a hymnal and singing together with the person next to me in church – pointing out each stanza on each staff to ...

How the director of America’s top hymnody database changed his mind about screens. What is the future of congregational singing, especially in North America over the next 10 years? How is it changing?

Keith and Kristyn Getty, a Nashville-based, modern hymn-writing duo, want you to sing in church. More specifically, they want you and the rest of your congregation to sing together. "Congregational ...

(RNS) — 'This idea that we need to be at war with each other over worship styles, I find ridiculous,' said center director Brian Hehn. (RNS) — Praise team leaders, organists, gospel choir members and ...

(RNS) — They are words the Rev. John Witvliet, an expert on Christian worship, never thought he would hear himself say. “Based on the science that we are learning about this week, we are urging and I ...

1. A shrinking body of commonly accepted congregational song. On occasion, when I have directed music at another church or conference, I have begun leading a hymn I assumed was a familiar song, ...

Christian congregations have not always been allowed to lift up their hearts in songs of praise. St. Ambrose, 4th Century Bishop of Milan and teacher of St. Augustine, seems to have started ...

Lifelong church musician Benjamin Harlan has lived a dynamic musical score for more than 40 years, but as the writer, composer and professor reaches his career’s coda, he has decided to instead write ...

The Rev. J. Alan McLean was making plans with some fellow ministers several years ago to mark the beginning of Lent in an ecumenical service at South Congregational Church in Hartford. “We were ...

› What: Harvest Hymn Festival› Where: St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, 630 Mississippi Ave., Signal Mountain› When: 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11› Admission: Free, love offering collected› For more ...