In this episode, Sam talks to Breen Marie Sipes from Music That Makes Community about songs, singing and songwriting in the context of community-forming, covering the work of the organisation and Breen's own story.

https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/

Joel is joined on this episode by Chris and Peter to look back on a wonderful retreat at Wydale Hall, review June's 'Community Songs' challenge and set a new challenge for July.

In this episode Joel and Sam are joined by Elise Massa, Ruth Sutherland and Chris Juby. Together they look back at May in the 12 Song Challenge where we wrote songs inspired by the 'other' Songs of the Bible, and they explore the theme of 'Community' as the new challenge for June.

In this episode Joel and Chris are joined by 12 Song team captains Jon and Rebecca to look back over the first month of the Challenge, highlight a few songs, do a bit of live critique and set a new challenge for May.

www.resoundworship.org

www.12songchalleng.org

The 12 Song Challenge is back! Joel and Sam launch the new season, talk about how to make the most of being involved, and set the first challenge. The featured song is 'Spirit, Come, Refresh Me Now' by Emma Billington.

https://12songchallenge.org/

In this episode, Joel meets Steve Harding, A&R Manager for Integrity Music. Together they cover Steve's journey into Christian music, as a keyboard player, producer and volunteer worship pastor, through the Push Community initiative into his current role at Integrity; the ins and outs of an A&R role at a significant label; the importance of community and homegrown food in a worship diet; plus his hopes and vision especially for the UK scene.

In this extended episode, Joel & Sam are joined by Robb, Ruth, Andy, Andrew, Rebecca, Elise,Chris, Travis, Olwen, David and Kieran to celebrate another year of the 12 Song Challenge, featuring favourite songs and challenges, memorable moments and shout-outs to numerous writers and team-stars-of-the-year. The featured songs are "Jesus it's You" by Sue Crossman, performed by Hopestream Worship and "Turn my tears to gladness" by Phillip Laycock, sung by Peter Assad.

In this episode, Sam and Joel are joined by Rebecca and Andrew to review November's AI songs challenge and set the final challenge of the 2024 season!

In this episode, Chris meets Jonas Kurlberg to talk about the rise of AI and its potential impact on creatives, creativity and the writing of songs for worship. Joans is Director of Postgraduate Studies and a Tutor in Theology at Spurgeon’s College in London, leading the MA on Digital Theology. His primary research interest lies in exploring the intersection between Christian faith and digital culture.

MA in Digital Theology at Spurgeon's College

https://www.spurgeons.ac.uk/ma-in-digital-theology

Global Network for Digital Theology

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnlzB7qamlogFMkeeFOvtRA

ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/

Suno

https://suno.com/

Worship.ai

https://worship.ai/

Justin Bieber - Holy Jesus (Ft. Evan Tunes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBCbhIKKup8

In this episode Joel is joined by Chris Juby (while Sam has a half-term break) and together they review some fascinating data gathered from 12 Song participants about song usage in church, look back over a month of Happy Songs in October, and dive deep into a conversation about how to tackle the new November challenge. Make sure you also listen to episode 129 and Chris' fascinating conversation with digital theologian Jonas Kurlberg. The featured song is Lord, You Hear the Cry by Geraldine Latty.

12 Song Challenge

https://12songchallenge.org/

MA in Digital Theology at Spurgeon's College

https://www.spurgeons.ac.uk/ma-in-digital-theology

Global Network for Digital Theology

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnlzB7qamlogFMkeeFOvtRA

ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/

Microsoft Copilot

https://copilot.microsoft.com/

Midjourney

https://www.midjourney.com/home

Suno

https://suno.com/

Udio

https://www.udio.com/

Worship.ai

https://worship.ai/

Justin Bieber - Holy Jesus (Ft. Evan Tunes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBCbhIKKup8