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, […]
3rd of March 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 […]
24th of January 2023
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 […]
13th of December 2022
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 […]
8th of December 2022
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 […]
29th of November 2022
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 […]
27th of September 2022
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: […]
12th of April 2022
WORDS FOR WORSHIP IN A TIME OF WAR
We are grateful to John Bell and the Wild Goose Resource Group of the Iona Community for sharing this resource with us. Below is the introductory text from the first […]
5th of April 2022
The Charles Wesley of the South Sudan: Mary Aluel Garang
Since the mid-1980s, Mary Aluel Garang’s theologically rich hymns have helped Sudanese Christians maintain faith and hope in God despite decades of war, conflict, and hardship. Her songs are known […]
23rd of March 2022
Rebuilding Choir in a COVID World
I am a music teacher and music therapist by training, as well as a church choir director. However, in March of 2020 I found myself with no choir, as I’m […]
