*Although screen monitors are used these days, I remember the interaction while sharing a hymnal and singing together with the person next to me in church – pointing out each stanza on each staff to ...

(RNS) — They are words the Rev. John Witvliet, an expert on Christian worship, never thought he would hear himself say. “Based on the science that we are learning about this week, we are urging and I ...

Guitar-slinging Cantor Stuart Simon retires after 40 years on the pulpit of Am Yisrael Conservative Congregation. Cantor Stuart Simon has sung the prayer Adon Olam to hundreds of melodies over his ...

On Easter Sunday, it's a longstanding tradition for the choir at Eden Prairie United Methodist Church to lead the congregation in Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus. But the church was silent in 2020, when ...

Last month Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland opened a Music Week at Columbia College in Dubuque, Iowa, crying: “We have become mute in the Catholic Church. We have become silent worshippers sitting ...

Lessons from a year without corporate worship. One year ago, my husband and I were still learning how to get out the door on Sunday morning for church with a two-year-old and a five-month-old during ...

B’nai Torah Congregation of Boca Raton will have both a scholar in residence talk and a husband/wife singing duo perform in concert on Jan. 6. Scholar in residence Eli Beer, founder and president of ...

One of Pope Francis’ more memorable aphorisms, from a homily in 2014, is: “You’re able to shout when your team makes a goal, but you cannot sing the Lord’s praises?” I have heard parish song directors ...

Congregation Beth El Binah is having a banner summer for new membership. The week before the start of the High Holidays, Dallas’ predominantly LGBTQ synagogue had a record number of new members sign ...

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock announces its popular annual Messiah Sing to take place on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 1:30 p.m. at the Congregation’s facility at 48 Shelter Rock Road in ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! In the Jewish tradition, the cantor leads the congregation in song and prayer. For ...

Christian congregations have not always been allowed to lift up their hearts in songs of praise. St. Ambrose, 4th Century Bishop of Milan and teacher of St. Augustine, seems to have started ...