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Brian Doerksen’s Final Album “Breathing” Arrives as a Lasting Gift to the Church
The Canadian church received a final gift from one of its most beloved songwriters on October 2, when Brian Doerksen’s posthumous album “Breathing” was released. The 13-track record, produced by Doerksen and Philip Janz and distributed by Integrated Music Rights, was introduced ahead of release by the single “Whisper,” a song that captures the gentle spirit of the whole project.
Doerksen, born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, died peacefully in his sleep on July 21, 2026, at the age of 60, survived by his wife Joyce and their six children. Few songwriters have shaped modern worship as deeply: his songs have been sung in churches around the world for more than three decades. “Breathing” honours that legacy by including new recordings of four of his classics, “Come, Now Is the Time to Worship,” “Refiner’s Fire,” “Faithful One” and “Hope of the Nations,” alongside the new material he completed in his final season.
His team described the album as a collection of songs meant to gently sing over people dealing with anxiety and trouble sleeping, music designed to slow the heart rather than stir the crowd. As they put it: “Sometimes they arrive softly… Sometimes they come as a whisper.”
There is a particular weight to a worship leader’s final album, and “Breathing” carries it with grace. Doerksen spent his life teaching the church to breathe in God’s presence; this record lets him keep doing it. For the countless congregations still singing his songs every Sunday, “Breathing” is both a farewell and a continuation, the voice of a songwriter whose work will outlive him for generations.
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Vancouver worship outfit The Slower I Go released their single “Holy Sanctuary” on March 20 through NRT Music, a song built less like a performance and more like a prayer meeting caught on record. Credited to The Slower I Go alongside Noah Priebe and Brooklyn Summer, the single was written by Logan Murph, Brooklyn Summer and Noah Priebe.
The song’s heartbeat is a simple, repeated cry: “Come through, come through, come through.” Rather than building toward a single big moment, “Holy Sanctuary” circles that refrain the way a congregation circles a prayer, letting repetition do the work of surrender. It is worship written for the room as much as for the listener, an invitation to slow down, as the band’s name suggests, and make space for God to move.
The Slower I Go is a four-piece made up of Noah Priebe, Brooklyn Summer, Dacey Lane and Logan York, and “Holy Sanctuary” has not been their only word in 2026. The year has also brought the singles “All Eyes On You” and “Rejoice,” and the group followed “Holy Sanctuary” with “SHOCK!,” a collaboration with Zane Walls that landed in NewReleaseToday’s new releases for the week of June 5, showing a band comfortable moving between intimate worship and bolder, pop-leaning territory.
Canada’s worship scene has always been at its strongest when its songs are born in local rooms, and The Slower I Go sound like exactly that: a Vancouver band writing from the middle of a praying community. “Holy Sanctuary” is their open door, and the invitation could not be simpler. Come through.
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