worship songs
There’s a reason every hit worship song sounds the same
By Bob Smietana — April 11, 2023
(RNS) — A new study found that the most popular worship songs come from a handful of megachurches with a knack for writing pop songs about what God will do for you.
Like that new church worship song? Chances are, it will be gone soon.
By Bob Smietana — May 2, 2022
(RNS) — A new study found that the lifespan of a hit worship song has declined dramatically in recent years.
Singer Charles Billingsley, COVID-19 survivor, on worship in the hardest times
By Adelle M. Banks — May 1, 2020
(RNS) — The worship songwriter said ‘for several weeks there, every time I'd try to sing, I would cough.’
‘Hymn for the 81%’: A conversation with Daniel Deitrich
By Shane Claiborne — January 21, 2020
(RNS) — A lot of contemporary worship music doesn’t offer the best theology, but 'Hymn for the 81%,' by a South Bend, Indiana, worship leader, has gone viral with a cocktail of prophetic fire and Christ-like grace.
Where have all the sad songs gone?
By Marty Duren — October 10, 2018
(RNS) — Though Ecclesiastes reminds us there is a time to mourn, many Protestant churches today experience few songs of lament.
Video of the Day: “Praise Songs for Dummies”
By David Gibson — February 5, 2013
Perhaps this has been going around church circles for a while, but Rod Dreher flags an instant classic — for those familiar with this style of worship, increasingly popular. It’s a send-up of that wonderfully inspirational, terribly treacly, wannabe-show-stopper, hope-to-be-hip, usually-falling-short style of modern church music known as the praise song. I think it was […]
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