*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 ...

(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 ...

NASHVILLE (RNS) — Keith Getty’s life is usually filled with singing. Leading worship at Christian conferences. A national singing tour, including a standing-room-only hymn sing at the Grand Ole Opry ...

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 ...

Lessons from a year without corporate worship. One year ago, my husband and I were still learning how to get out the door on Sunday morning for church with a two-year-old and a five-month-old during ...

In preparing the new PCUSA hymnal, our committee may have made some wrong decisions. But they weren't careless or cavalier ones. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, ...