If your favorite band were suddenly erased from the memory of the world, could you recall their lyrics accurately enough to do them justice on the world stage—and more importantly, would you dare?
Articles tagged with music
The Third Thing
The church’s musical imagination is limited by the vocabulary we use: traditional, contemporary, praise and worship, hymns, old, new.
Christmas Songs: Why That Tune?
What is it about some of the Christmas golden oldies that evoke such warm feelings of home and holiday?
Fostering Cultural Inclusivity in our Church Music
John MacInnis offers some historical perspective and practical ideas for how the power of music can foster cultural inclusivity in our church communities while keeping all our eyes where they belong—forever on Jesus.
Estate Planning: Psalms and Hymns for a Lifetime
Our “estate planning” would do well to include equipping ourselves with songs that have nurtured the Church for decades and centuries.
Church Music in the Current Technological Age
As hymn books dissolve into digital catalogs and organs morph into macbooks, what do we make of the source of our songs? Who decides what gets written and what gets played (are the worship wars really over)?