*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 ...

Congregational singing is one of our best tools for doing that. And visualizing worship as a funnel helps me channel that singing to a unified end. The opening of the service is like the wide mouth of ...

Joachimsthal is a town in Bohemia that was founded on the eve of the Reformation. Silver was mined there and turned into “the standard silver coin of sixteenth century Germany, the Joachimsthaler or ...

(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 ...

What is the future of congregational singing, especially in North America over the next 10 years? How is it changing? How can and should technology play a role? These questions are of first importance ...

The Lake Avenue Congregational Church choir in Pasadena, California, has been diligently practicing virtually ever since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but said nothing replaces the feeling of ...

At 1:30 p.m. last Saturday, at the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, or OIGC, biennial Gospel Music Conference, I watched a room full of singers — some who had been singing since childhood, some who ...

(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 ...

NEWBURYPORT — Central Congregational Church will host the community sing “Songs of Freedom and Hope” on Sunday, March 16, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the church, 14 Titcomb St. Singing circles exist in all ...