If you've sat in a pew at Christ Church in Summit, you already know Mark Miller — he's the guy leading the music most Sundays, and now the rest of the country is catching up.

Miller, the church's Minister of Music and composer of the widely sung hymn "I Choose Love," sat for a nationally published interview Wednesday at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians' Worship & Music Conference in Montreat, North Carolina. The Presbyterian News Service profile shines a national light on someone Summit congregants have known for years.

In 2015, just weeks after nine people were murdered during Bible study at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, collaborator Lindy Thompson sent Miller lyrics she'd written in response. "I saw the words and, as I often do with Lindy, the music just seemed to happen," Miller told the conference. He taught the song to his senior high choir that same week — it's since made its way into hymnals across multiple Protestant denominations.

Miller holds down three roles: Professor of Church Music, Director of Chapel and Composer in Residence at Drew University in Madison, and Minister of Music at Christ Church in Summit. He led worship production for the church's livestreamed service on June 28.

His resume outside Summit is stacked. He's led choirs in Sweden, South Africa, Austria, Russia and the Baltic states. His piece "Let Justice Roll" was performed at Carnegie Hall in 2019, and he sat on the United Methodist Church's Hymnal Revision Committee starting in 2017. Last May, Christian Theological Seminary gave him an honorary Doctor of Divinity, where he debuted a new commissioned hymn.

Miller and his husband have two grown children — and when their daughter had a baby boy, Miller named a hymn tune after his new grandson. The hymn, "Can Anything Anywhere Hinder God's Love," was co-written with David Bjorlin.

At the conference, Miller called music "an ambiguous power" that can either divide people or bring them together, and said he tries to write lyrics rooted in justice, inclusion, forgiveness and peace-building.

Summit residents can still catch his work the old-fashioned way — at Christ Church's regular Sunday morning services.