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January 2016

January 17, 2016

Squandered: Rethinking Worship in University Chapel Services (Guest Post by Chuck King)

Today we're featuring a post written by my friend and mentor, Chuck King, on an...

January 15, 2016

The Black Dog, The White Pill, and Liturgy

My name is Jonathan. I suffer from depression. I have as long as I can...

January 08, 2016

Dear Traditional Worshipers

I know you're there. I know there are many, many of you out there, no...

December 2015

December 24, 2015

A Christmas Prayer

Everlasting God, We celebrate new life today. The new life born in Bethlehem, the new...

December 23, 2015

5 Christmas Carols We Should Know By Heart (And a Few We Should Forget)

I've managed to keep the popular tunes of the season mostly out of my ears...

December 20, 2015

As I've said before, movements like Hillsong are sapping the life out of congregational singing....

December 14, 2015

Have Worship Your Way, or: The Real Reason the Worship Wars Were Terrible

As I said in my last post, the worship wars sucked. But they didn't suck...

December 03, 2015

9 Reasons to Stop Dividing Your Church’s Worship over Style

Let's face it. The worship wars sucked. Not because the issue of worship is peripheral....

December 02, 2015

Anthems of Peace for a Violent Day

It's sick. Another week, another mass shooting. It's just sick. And it's sick that it's...

November 2015

November 22, 2015

10 Reasons to Follow the Liturgical Calendar

(Flickr: Pete Jelliffe, creative commons license 2.0) Happy New Year! Well, almost. With the arrival...

November 12, 2015

Worship Should Be Exceedingly Boring

(Photo: Flickr: By Paul Sableman, creative commons license) Opening Sentences The increasing speed of TV...

November 02, 2015

Which of our favorite hymns are rewritten “bar” songs?

Photo by Thierry Ehrmann. Available through Flickr via Creative Commons 2.0 License Are many of...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

The Ultimate “Christian” Halloween Celebration

I've seen about a million posts this week about what constitutes an appropriate "Christian" response...

October 19, 2015

8 Reasons the Worship Industry Is Killing Worship

(Photo: Flickr: by Jiaren Lau, creative commons license) I grew up listening to contemporary Christian...

October 02, 2015

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

But, and my apologies to Matt Redman, but we've lost the "heart" of...

September 16, 2015

Worship is not about preference…

It's about meaning. One of the things that I find puzzling about the whole worship...

September 10, 2015

Anyway, Willard, it's not that these hymn-singing churches sound so completely different all the time,...

September 08, 2015

The false dichotomy of worship that fractures our churches into "traditional" and "contemporary" worshiping bodies...

September 04, 2015

3 Reasons Contemporary Worship IS Declining, and What We Can Do to Help the Church Move On

Contemporary worship is declining. Some months ago T. David Gordon wrote a post entitled “The...

August 2015

August 18, 2015

Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heaven to earth come down; Fix in...

August 10, 2015

It's about meaning, not preference. Worship should be liturgical. We can trace this back...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

So, today, I'd like us to celebrate some of the places historic Christian worship continues...

January 18, 2015

5 Anthems by African-American Composers

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday, here are a few of my favorite...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

Looking back at 2014

Ponder Anew's Top 5 Posts of 2014 This week on Ponder Anew, we are counting...

December 23, 2014

Five Anthems for the Season

If you're like me, you're sick and tired of hearing the commercial Christmas music that's...