Vetting the CCLI Top 100 – Next Steps
Last week, a diverse group gathered including songwriters, theologians, artists, worship leaders, music industry professionals, ecumenists, researchers, students, teachers, and administrators, though many wear multiple hats. We represented a rich […]
29th of June 2026
Reparations Royalty Program – An Update
A few years ago we launched the “Reparations Royalty Pilot Program“. Many churches across the U.S. and Canada have planned and enacted a program based on our pilot guide. In […]
24th of June 2026
“Hymn and I” Program – An Interview
On April 29 to May 2 of 2026, I attended a joint conference by the “Junius B. Dotson Institute for Music and Worship in the Black Church & Beyond” and […]
3rd of June 2026
Music and Peacemaking
The original version of this article first appeared in Leader magazine, Spring, 2026, copyright © MennoMedia. All rights reserved. Used by permission. When I was taking a music course […]
7th of May 2026
Church Music as Community Music
We’re Not All Concert Pianists As a church musician, I try not to expect more than what is fair of a congregation. Even if a congregation is very musically literate, […]
26th of February 2026
Shared songs with new meaning
This post is re-posted by permission of both the author and its original platform The Christian Century. To read the original post from November 2025 by Melissa Florer-Bixler, you can […]
10th of December 2025
Denominationally Promiscuous: Reflections on Leading Music Outside of One’s Own Tradition
I started a new job this semester. I now serve part-time as Director of Music for the Anglican Studies program at Saint Paul University. Anglican Studies is less of a […]
3rd of December 2025
2025 In Review
The Center for Congregational Song continues to thrive. Sometimes our work isn’t public facing, though, so each year I like to do a retrospective that shares about all we’ve accomplished. […]
26th of November 2025
When Hymns Are to Be Sung in Cantonese
The Road Full of Challenges – When Hymns Are to Be Sung in Cantonese I shared in previous blogs that hymn lyrics are worth retranslating for Cantonese-speaking Christians, even though […]
3rd of October 2025
What Should We Sing?: The decision-making process of a vocalist
Most of the time when we think about what we should sing we are thinking about what we should plan for the congregation to sing based on a song’s theology […]
