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They're Playing Our Song: The Secret Multiracial Churches Know About Music
It's not the style or quality of musical performance that brings multiracial churches together, but a commitment to common participation.
Children's Music Matters
A singer-songwriter's call for excellence in the songs we feed our kids.
Prone to Wander
Contemporary Music: The Cultural Medium and the Christian Message
What kind of Christians do contemporary services produce?
A Variety of Religious Composition
The music we sing, in and out of church, is more varied and interesting than we've been led to believe.
The End of Worship Wars
But we're still learning from one another.
The Trajectory of Worship
What's really happening when we praise God in song?
Worship in Black and White
Racial reconciliation happens when we not only sing each other's songs but learn the stories embedded in those songs.
Pop Goes the Worship
Religion professor T. David Gordon says Muzak has shaped singing in church.
Whatever Happened to Amazing Grace?
Why John Newton's famous hymn failed to win, place, or show.
The Hymns That Keep on Going
The 27 worship songs that have made the hymnal cut time and again.
Away With 'Away in the Manger'?
Should churches ban carols with questionable theology?
Singing For Jesus
One reason white America sings spirituals today.
Hipster Faith
To remain relevant, many evangelical pastors are following the lead of hipster trendsetters. So what happens when 'cool' meets Christ?
Who Owns Your Christmas Carols?
No, Kim Hill didn't write 'O Holy Night.' But she holds a copyright for it.
A Middle Way
There's a third side in the worship wars.
Transcending the Worship Wars
Bryan Chapell urges Christians to move past musical preferences toward Christ-Centered Worship.
Sounds of Silence
Banned Methodist hymn sing indicates Fiji church-state conflict is worsening.
Here We Are to Worship
Six principles that might bring a truce to the age-old tension between tradition and popular culture.
Fiji Bans Massive Methodist Hymn-Sing
Church leaders say government officials fear singing would lead to political instability.

Top Story May 5, 2024

Conservative Methodists, Unite
Conservative Methodists, Unite
After this week’s UMC votes on LGBTQ issues, African Methodists should join American conservatives in the new Global Methodist denomination.

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