An exhibition prioritizes the expensive, silent object over the lived, functional experience of the believer.
When I asked my dad what songs he sang in church during the war, he explained that with his native Netherlands under Nazi occupation, worshipers couldn’t sing anything that smacked of ...
Every Christmas, people sing the song “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night”. Unlike many other songs and carols ...
The singing of psalms spans thousands of years of church tradition. Today’s songwriters and worship leaders mine these texts for words and inspiration as they craft new songs for the church. For the ...
Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...
Some claim music is rooted in our souls. Yet, if you've ever suffered through a tone-deaf friend singing along with the radio to one of your favorite tunes, you know that's not always true. When it ...
Biblical, angry, congregational worship can help transform our hearts and churches. While many nonviolent protests and some destructive riots took place over the past week in reaction to George ...
Psalms reminds me that I will never be one of those people who can effortlessly quote Bible verses. There is just too much to remember. I wish I could, but it’s never going to happen. But I did enjoy ...
Church leaders should be ensuring their congregations are singing theologically and doctrinally rich songs, award-winning ...
The sounds of silence ring loud and clear on the intensely contemplative “Seven Psalms,” Paul Simon’s often whisper-soft new album that is not — he maintains — an album in the conventional sense of ...