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George Herbert Walker Bush June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018 The Burial of the...

In Celebration of and in Thanksgiving For the Life Of George Herbert Walker Bush June...

Someone asked me the other day if I was planning to check out the new...

It's that time of year again. For the next few weeks in the majority of...

When my old, usually reliable car is giving me trouble, there's only one person I...

As a professional Christian, I don't get many Sundays off. In fact, I tend to...

You might notice I said "'hymns' are better than contemporary worship songs." Not "old hymns."...

I want to make one thing clear before I plant my tongue partially in cheek:...

In the early 90s, the private music studio of Reva Cooper Unsicker made occasional appearances...

I need to be honest with everyone. There are a lot of contemporary worship songs...

"For the most part institutions are lost, not because they are stormed by hostile outsiders,...

When I was about 12 or 13 years old, my grandparents gave me a birthday...

Warning: For those of you who complain when one of my posts has nothing to...

Here is a real, completely true question I got from a reader. Remember, I am...

Gonna Take a Sentimental Journey When I was a kid, I thought I really really...

Apparently John Piper added some words to the hymn "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" and some...

It looks like the beginning of the end at Willow Creek. They aren't saying that,...

As a church musician, I've done my share of denominational sojourning. Every time I join...

One of the things the baby boomer generation has introduced into the liturgical sphere is...

Well, discussion on last week's post on the Rocky Mountain Church job listing didn't go...

My name’s Jonathan, and I struggle with depression. So please know that when I wrote...

I thought I had heard everything from the church growth crowd. I really did. Wrong....

In my last post, I talked about the weird, unnecessary, overly pragmatic reasons we have...

In my time as a church musician, I have gotten more than an occasional gripe...

(A brief warning for anyone who finds the subject of breastfeeding to be gross or...

I'm admittedly not the biggest proponent of Vacation Bible School as a ministry strategy. In...

Okay, I admit it. I was wrong. I'm sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I take it...

Dear UM Hymnal People, I don't know any of you personally, but let me tell...

One reason why we Christians argue so much about which hymn to sing, which liturgy...

The Cult of Cafeteria Worship I'm terrified that catering to individual aesthetic preferences in worship...