AFPC and CMI are pleased to announce a new partnership in shared ministry and resources as of November 1, 2018. Joined by their appreciation for the transformational music of Plainchant, Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, and Modern liturgical music set within the rich tradition of the Catholic Church, and its capacity to form the spiritual lives of […]
Archives for December 2018
Why Christmas Is About Music*
Six months ago the Lilly Scholars and their congregations began a journey: the Lilly Peer Learning Project in Worship and Music at The Church Music Institute. Rev. Dr. Tim Shapiro of the Center for Congregations, Indianapolis, started the journey with three questions: 1. “What music speaks deeply to you?” 2. “What memory does it […]
Church Music, Community, Vocation, and Support
Paul Westermeyer The Church Sings Martin Luther praised God’s “excellent gift of music [which] has been instilled and implanted in all creatures,” then explained that “when musical learning is added . . . which refines the natural music. . . there is nothing more amazing in this world. . . [N]ext to the Word of […]