Congregational singing is dead, and we have killed it. If it wasn’t dead before Covidtide, it probably is now. So let’s start again, and let’s get back to basics. The pop-worshiping house cover band ...

(RNS) — On Pentecost Sunday, some members of Southwood Lutheran Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, sang hymns without masks for the first time in more than a year. They vocalized “Multilingual Grace” in ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Although the chancel choir, the soloists, and the instrumentalists are all vital contributors to the music of worship, our ...

Congregational singing is not a matter of “taste.” Anything we do in corporate worship is about meaning, not preference. In my last post, “Why Singing Hymns the Traditional Way is Better than Singing ...

(RNS) — 'We're going to sing and sing and try to touch the hearts of the ICE agents,' said the Rev. Jacqueline Lewis, senior pastor at Middle Church in New York. (RNS) — At Middle Church, a historic ...

Bands are rocking post-pandemic services, but congregants can’t yet join in. Last Sunday at London’s Holy Trinity Brompton church, the band repeated the chorus, “Awake my soul and sing / Sing his ...

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 ...

The conference also will feature an evening performance by popular hymn writer and song leader John Bell of Scotland’s Iona Community, a Christian ecumenical group dedicated to the rebuilding of ...

Callie Terrell dresses up just once a week now — for church. It was Sunday morning and services were starting, so Terrell made her way in her ruffly blue blouse, hoop earrings and done-up short hair ...

A group of churchgoers were amazed to discover their piano intact despite the building being destroyed by a tornado – and promptly rallied around for a sing song. Powerful footage shows how the moment ...