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April 2022

April 21, 2022

If Worship Is All About the Heart, Yours Needs Some Good Liturgy

I get comments like this all the time. The article misses the main point. In...

February 2022

February 21, 2022

His Name Was Jon Daker, and May He Rest in Peace

Jon Graham Daker, son, brother, faithful Christian, and accidental internet star, reportedly passed away yesterday,...

January 2022

January 21, 2022

A Letter to Christians Who Can’t Take the Sunday Production Anymore

I know you're tired. Run down. Sad. Fed up. Angry, even. I don't blame you...

January 12, 2022

Worship Is About God’s Story, Not Yours

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

January 11, 2022

The Problem with “Meaningful” Worship

There’s a term that people like to throw around at church when they talk about...

January 09, 2022

Have Church Your Way: The High Cost of the Worship Wars

After fighting the worship wars for a generation, evangelical churches first tried something they called...

January 08, 2022

Liturgy Is For Kids: or, Your Kids Don’t Need Pop Worship

Them: I like traditional worship, but I've got kids, so, you know... Me: No, I...

January 07, 2022

Confessions of a Former “Worship Leader”

A guest post by Miguel Ruiz. I can’t help but think I am not alone...

January 06, 2022

Domesticated Transcendence and Tanzanian Christianity

A guest post from Michael Dodaro. "Dignified Protestants now say that truth is relative. Evangelicals...

January 05, 2022

Want People Back in the Pews? Try Transcendence over Relevance

It's true that with enough money and marketing you can attract people, at least for...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

12 Ways to Revive Congregational Singing as We Emerge from Covidtide

Congregational singing is dead, and we have killed it. If it wasn't dead before Covidtide,...

December 22, 2021

What Do You Think About Livestreamed Worship?

What Do You Think About Livestreamed Worship? I find the question difficult to answer because...

December 20, 2021

Want to Keep Christ in Christmas? Go to Church

There are lots of ways in which one could conceivably convince themselves that they were...

July 2021

July 07, 2021

Perfect Practice Makes Sorta Closer to Perfect

During Covidtide, my professional project has been improving my organ playing. So I found me...

June 2021

June 10, 2021

Form and Meaning in Liturgical Art

In April of 2005 I was busy waiting tables and preparing to finish my undergraduate...

June 07, 2021

How to Make a Beautiful Hymn Less Beautiful

I was going to call this post "How to Make a Beautiful Hymn Ugly," but...

June 05, 2021

Liturgical Novelty Defeats the Purpose of Liturgy

I get too many emails. I don't mind the personal ones. It's the stuff I...

June 04, 2021

Why I Reject the Term “Contemporary Worship”

If you've read much of what I've written over the past few years, you might...

May 2021

May 13, 2021

Hymns of Faith and Hope: Crown Him with Many Crowns

Seeing that we have a great High Priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus...

May 07, 2021

Behold, he waltzeth with clouds; or, The Form Is the Substance

One of the problems endemic to Christian worship today is the assumption that forms don't...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Corporate Worship Is about God’s Impressions, Not Our Expressions

Christians who have grown up in evangelical churches, like I did, often have a great...

January 2021

January 27, 2021

Another Reason for Getting Rid of Screens in Church: The Posture of Worship

I've written before about the tragedy of allowing screens into our sanctuaries, but a conversation...

January 25, 2021

Hymns of Faith and Hope: They Cast Their Nets in Galilee

When I begin a new church post, I like to ask my new colleagues what...

January 06, 2021

Hymns of Faith and Hope: Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning

Here's a delightful little Epiphany hymn for you. The text is by Reginald Heber, the...

January 04, 2021

Hymns of Faith and Hope: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise

Poet Christopher Wordsworth on his own text: "[It is a] recapitulation of the successive manifestations...

January 03, 2021

Hymns of Faith and Hope: As with Gladness Men of Old

Here's a little gem for the upcoming Epiphany. According to J.R. Watson: "Its simplicity of...

January 02, 2021

Hymns of Faith and Hope: What Child Is This

Here's a friendly PSA from Ponder Anew: It's still Christmas. It's Christmas all the way...

January 01, 2021

Hymns of Faith and Hope: Lord, For the Years

Here's an inspired text by Timothy Dudley-Smith that reinforces the faithfulness of God in spite...

December 2020

December 31, 2020

Hymns of Faith and Hope: God Is Working His Purpose Out

Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only for fire,...

December 24, 2020

Christmas Hymns of Hope and Comfort: Of the Father’s Love Begotten

You know Joy to the World. You know Hark! the Herald Angels Sing. You know...