"Sing! has grown from Keith and Kristyn Getty's passion for congregational singing; it's been formed by their traveling and playing and listening and discussing and learning and teaching all over the world. And in writing it, they have five key aims: To discover why we sing and the overwhelming joy and holy privilege that comes with singing; To consider how singing impacts our hearts and minds and all of our lives; To cultivate a culture of family...

In this informative and entertaining critique of music in the Catholic Church, Thomas Day outlines a stinging indictment of the influence of popular culture on American Catholicism, particularly as expressed in church music. Taking aim at the Irish-American repertoire of songs that overwhelms Catholic music in America, Day assails the secularization of liturgical practices that began, in the author's view, with the Second Vatican Council in 1962....

A recently divorced woman moves to San Francisco to start a new life. She joins a church choir and meets new friends and learns life lessons.

"This concise guide provides an introduction to the rich and variegated subject of Christian currents through art and music down the ages." --