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?

(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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

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 ...

Children were the catalyst for how Conservative Jews sing in services today. Previously, the responses to a cantor (music leader) were “spontaneous, haphazard, individual, without any coordination,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christmas Eve candlelight 7 p.m. Dec. 24 at Twenty-eighth Street Church of the Brethren, 28th Street and Union Avenue. The service includes congregational singing and pew communion. The service ends ...