About me
Carl Bear is a scholar and practitioner of music and worship. He studied church music at Valparaiso University (BM), musicology at Arizona State University (MA), religion and music at Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music (MAR), and liturgical studies at the Graduate Theological Union (PhD). He has served as a church musician in Lutheran, Anglican/Episcopal, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, United, and Baptist communities in Canada and the United States. He serves as editor of the Journal of Congregational Song (previously known as The Hymn).
