Here is careful field research about music in actual churches. Linda Clark, a church musician who explains her posture as she goes, reflects on the research. Several things become unmistakably clear: that music in the life of a church is enormously rich and multifaceted, differs from church to church though com-mon issues emerge, is tied to the life of faith, and that the musician who serves a church enters an ongoing stream which transcends even the local congregation she or he serves.