About Voices United: A Congregational Song Podcast
Produced and Hosted by Whitworth University church music professor Dr. Ben Brody, the Voices United podcast is supported by The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada and Whitworth University. As the podcast host, Ben’s task is to have as many conversations as he can with as many different congregational song enthusiasts as he can find. These meaningful conversations will seek to explore why people are passionate about congregational song, what works for their congregations, and stories of success and failures that we can be inspired by or learn from.
After 39 episodes, podcast host Ben Brody hosts his final episode. He reflects on the conversations, learnings, and inspiration he's found since his first interview conducted in 2016.
Benjamin Brody serves as Chair of the Music Department, Professor of Music and Director of Church Music Studies at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. At Whitworth, he teaches courses in church music and music appreciation, and serves as Director of Campus Worship.
A life member of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, Professor Brody served as President (2020-22), and convened the working group that produced Singing Welcome: Songs and Hymns for Refugees and Immigrants (2017). A hymn tune composer, Professor Brody has authored two collections of hymn tunes, Come, O Holy House, And Worship: Hymns and Songs of Benjamin Brody (GIA, 2017) and At the Weaving of Creation: Fifty New Tunes by Benjamin Brody (GIA, 2024 forthcoming). His hymn tunes have appeared in over a dozen hymnals and published hymn collections.
Professor Brody holds Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in choral conducting from the University of Washington, and studied music education and church music as an undergraduate at Whitworth.
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Adam Perez
Guest Adam A. Perez earned a doctor of theology in liturgical studies with a secondary area in religion and the arts from Duke University Divinity School. He holds a B.A. in music education from Trinity Christian College (Palos Heights, IL) and a master of arts in religion and music from Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School (New Haven, CT). After finishing his Th.D., he served as a postdoctoral associate and as music and arts consultant to Goodson Chapel at Duke Divinity School.
A euphonium player by trade, Dr. Perez has served in various worship and music contexts spanning a wide variety of traditions as planner and leader; Adam has served in choral settings as a conductor and tenor and as a guitar-wielding contemporary worship leader. Dr. Perez also hosts the podcast The Worship Nerds that connects worship leaders with worship scholarship.
As a historian, Dr. Perez’s research is focused on the development of praise and worship theology and music, especially its transmission beyond Pentecostal and Charismatic communities and into global mainstream practice. His scholarly work has appeared in the journals Liturgy, Religions, The Hymn, The Journal of the Society for American Popular Music, Reformed Journal, Christian Scholar’s Review, among other places. He is a contributing author to the following volumes: the Oxford Handbook on Music and Christian Theology (forthcoming), the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Liturgical Theology (forthcoming), Flow: The Ancient Way to Do Contemporary Worship (Abingdon, 2020), and Essays on the History of Contemporary Praise and Worship (Pickwick, 2021). His current collaborative research project on worship leaders and the worship music industry can be found at www.worshipleaderresearch.com (http://www.worshipleaderresearch.com/).
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Mark Miller
Mark A. Miller has a passion for building community through music and believes that everyone is a child of God. He adheres to Cornel West’s belief that “Justice is what love looks like in public.”
A graduate of Yale and Juilliard, Mark is Professor of Church Music, Director of Chapel, and Composer-in-Residence at Drew University. He is also a Lecturer in Sacred Music at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music and Divinity School, and Minister of Music of Christ Church in Summit, New Jersey. Previously, he provided musical leadership for Marble Collegiate Church and The Riverside Church (both in New York City).
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