It is helping turn the church around from a MAGA haven to the place of peace and worship it should.

When we do a new work, we play it as a prelude before service, to plant the seed. Them we open congregational singing with it again. They've heard it and can sing it. We follow that with more traditional music, always chosen to support the sermon topic, and the give everyone something they know and like.

It is our service. We rehearse to make the music as beautiful and meaningful as possible, so we become invisible, and they contemplate their roles and relationships.

Last week when we sang How Great Thou Art, we did it with breadth, depth, and expansive tempi that focused on the words and their meaning. No just plodding through like any old hymn with a pipe organ.

Our attendence doubled, and doubled again. The MAGAs aren't bringing their guns anymore.