BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: One of the problems of many churches — of all varieties — is finding and keeping really good music directors. For many of the best of them, it takes a sacrificial devotion to ...

If you have listened to popular music anytime in the last 50 years, you have heard Nathan East play the bass guitar, probably hundreds of times. Flip on the radio or Spotify shuffle, play some Top 40 ...

John Legend attributes his faith-oriented upbringing to his successful music career. Growing up steeped in the church, John Legend attributes his faith-oriented upbringing to his successful music ...

Inside the Hammerstein Ballroom's great double doors, beyond the metal gates and metal detectors, the three-story music venue's lights are turned down, the stage empty. A few people mill about, and to ...

Oct 8, 2017 Oct 8, 2017 Updated Sep 14, 2020 The first time they were all together was the night of the show. Most of the band had convened two nights before to rehearse the entrances and endings, the ...

Though early Anabaptists called the organ “the Devil’s bagpipe” and other Reformed denominations have eschewed them, the instrument has been a staple in church music since the Reformation, and even ...

How a retired Anglican priest and a young church music director created Liturgical Folk. In 2015, when retired Anglican priest Nelson Koscheski shared one of his religious poems with the young music ...

On a Sunday morning in 2020, while Rev. Andi Woodworth welcomed her congregation to the Neighborhood Church in Atlanta, Georgia, she had an epiphany. For years, Woodworth said she and her wife and ...

Decline in children’s music ministries bodes ill for future, scholar says. Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) music ministries seemed like they were thriving in 1938. The instruments in churches across ...