Rock of Ages

I feel a little guilty. I’m as committed as anyone to writing new tunes for hymns to help them find a voice today and, yet, I don’t really care for what is probably the most famous of the “new tunes” out there. It’s the only one that I know of that made it into the [...]

Read Sally Morganthaler and then reread

Sally Morganthaler’s article is too thought-provoking to only read once. I ran across it again this week and am still blown away by her assessment of the situation that we are in. As negative attitudes toward conservative Christianity among the unchurched increased in the late ’90s and early 2000s, most large-congregation growth efforts became more [...]