I walked into a small Episcopal church years ago — just passing through a city, nothing planned — and ended up staying for a communion service I hadn't expected to attend.At some point, the congregation spoke together in words I didn't recognize. I found the page and read along.We do...
I have a friend who sings like an angel.Genuinely. The kind of voice that makes you stop mid-conversation. She grew up in a church that didn't allow instruments — no piano, no organ, no guitar. Just voices. When she first visited a service with a full band, she stood there...
There's a moment in rehearsal that I've learned to dread.You're working through a new song with the worship team — one that's genuinely beautiful, technically demanding, harmonically interesting. The musicians are locked in. The vocalists are tight. And then you step back and realize: no one in a congregation is...
There's a document called the Didache. Most Christians have never heard of it, which is part of what makes it interesting.It's a short manual — some kind of handbook for new Christian communities — written somewhere around the end of the first century. Maybe earlier. Scholars argue. Early enough to...