It’s a beloved Sunday night tradition celebrating its 65th anniversary this year. And like so many other things, the weekly Compline service at St. Mark’s Cathedral on Capitol Hill in Seattle was ...

The Sunday service is about to begin, but this is no ordinary worship. For one thing, it's come as you are, which often means fleece, jeans and maybe a head of green hair. People sit in the dark.

There’s something about being in an empty church that doesn’t feel truly empty. “This is a very live space right now,” says Jason Anderson, director of the Compline Choir at St. Mark’s Episcopal ...

After 53 years of leading the Sunday-night services that have become a local cult phenomenon, Peter Hallock’s stepping down from directing St. Mark’s Cathedral’s Compline Choir is less a retirement ...

We tend to note the passage of time with misgivings, seeing in a graying head or weathered fence a lifetime slipping away. Maybe we need to narrow our focus. Maybe the passage of a day or a week is ...

On Sunday nights at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, you’ll see people sitting and even lying down throughout the church as they listen to chanting and prayers sung by the choir. Until now ...

On Sunday evenings, the Stanford community gets an opportunity to reflect through Compline, a program featuring chanting and meditation at a candlelit Memorial Church. (VERONICA CRUZ/The Stanford ...

As darkness envelops the night, candlelight shines forth to welcome the weary each Sunday evening at Grace Lutheran Church's new compline service. All is silent until a single bell rings and the ...

St. James by-the-Sea will become the first church in San Diego to offer a regular Compline-by-Candlelight service as an opportunity for anyone in the community to spend half an hour in quiet ...

“It’s incredible to hear 300 people being completely silent. It’s amazing how quiet people can be,” said Stephen Kennedy, music director of Christ Church on East Avenue. That’s not the reaction most ...

Christ Church Little Rock has brought back an old tradition to attract a new audience. Scott Walters, rector at Christ Church in downtown, said the church began compline in an effort to invite a ...