*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?

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 ...

(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 ...

It was a celebration of their faith and the musical heritage that church founders had brought from Wales decades ago. “I love the singing in Welsh,” Jane Uhing of Nanticoke said afterward, as ...

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 ...

(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 ...

The annual Gymanfa Ganu/Fall Hymn Sing of Dr. Edwards Memorial Congregational Church, Main Street, Edwardsville, will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. Scott Jones of Edwardsville will be the ...