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A History of Asian American Worship Music

This blog is originally published on Gloria Fanchiang Music’s website. Special thanks to Gloria for allowing us to cross-post it here. Guest Blogger Gloria Fanchiang is a second-generation Taiwanese American […]

Introducing Our New Blog Team

Thank You One of the first things we did when launching The Center for Congregational Song in the Fall of 2017 was to put together a team of young bloggers […]

Questions for the Director – A Problem In My Aging Church

Does your church choir look something like this? A small number of people, mostly aging, many dealing with health and well-being issues? Here’s a question that came into my inbox […]

The Power of Music to Bring People Together: A ChatGPT Blog

The Prompt I’m sure 99% of you reading this have heard about the new “ChatGPT” ai chatbot. I decided to give it a whirl, so on Friday, March 3rd, 2023, […]

Text Comparison: It Is Well

Blogger Brian Hehn is the Director of The Center for Congregational Song.   Reworking hymns and music of the past Church musicians have always used, referenced, altered, and/or been inspired […]

A Song for Micah 6:1-8

This question recently came in to The Hymn Society staff.   The Question Hi Brian, I’m looking for a congregational song as a response to this coming Sunday’s Micah 6:1-8 […]

An Appeal To Our Clergy Colleagues

Guest blogger Kevin Parks is the Congregation Designated Minister of Music at St. Andrew’s United Church and University Musician at Atlantic School of Theology, both in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Kevin […]

Hymns With Positive Darkness Imagery

For many years theologians and worship leaders in various circles have been discussing the prevalence of light and darkness imagery found in both the biblical, liturgical, and hymnological language of […]

Questions for the Director – Resources for White Churches Doing Racial Justice Work

This question recently came in to The Hymn Society staff. It’s a variation on a question we get asked a lot, so I thought it would be a great blog […]

CCM: Fresh, Different, and Good for Congregational Song

Blogger Brian Hehn is the Director of The Center for Congregational Song.   In a very thoughtful and collegial Facebook Group I’m a part of, a member asked this question: […]