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A Performance During a Church Service?
Lately, I’ve been pondering the part of the Copyright Act of 1976 sometimes referred to as the religious service exemption. Under federal copyright law, two of a songwriter’s…
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5 Reasons We’ve Stopped Singing in Church
The first in a series of articles addressing the misconceptions that some churches have about modern music: We want to sing. We used to sing. But now, for…
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Yes, His Eye Is on the Sparrow
We came to sing to her. But she insisted on singing to us, too, as she lay in her hospital bed. That happened every time we visited the…
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Let’s Get Back to Singing the Psalms
Churches, why aren’t we singing the Psalms? I’m not talking about songs loosely based on the Psalms, but rather songs that try to stick to the divinely inspired…
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When Did Worship Become an Adjective?
I remember standing in a Christian bookstore, looking at the labeled dividers in the CD bins and trying to process the meaning of a new genre: worship music.…
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In the Passage
A blog about music and the church