Press Release – WAUSEON, Ohio — The Museum of Fulton County will host a free Community Hymn Sing at 4 p.m. on Sunday, November 15, at the Lauber Hill Reformed Mennonite Church, 7094 County Road 21, ...

Churches are retiring their hymnals and organs, hoping to attract younger crowds, but at West Auburn Congregational in Maine, Charles Marshall has been playing for 70 years with no plans to retire.

It’s no wonder many of the church’s great prayers and meditations have been set to music through the ages. Comforting, convicting and inspiring verses are made even more stirring and memorable with ...

Religion professor T. David Gordon says Muzak has shaped singing in church. In his new book, Why Johnny Can't Sing Hymns (P & R Publishing), T. David Gordon argues that modern worship choruses have ...

Whenever I talk about how pop worship music is inappropriate for Christian worship, I get comments accusing me of making hasty generalizations, and directing me to “fresh” and “new” pop recordings of ...

I am a cradle Catholic. I was born after the Mass of St. Paul VI was already well established. I grew up familiar with hymns like On Eagle’s Wings and The King of Glory, and I enthusiastically sang ...

William R. Newell was a Bible teacher and assistant superintendent at Moody Bible Institute in the late 1800s. He had a great understanding of scripture and a strong desire to help others know God’s ...

Walk into most black churches Sunday morning and you're more likely to hear the choir sing from the gospel top 40 list than sing old-time "Negro spirituals" or hymns from traditional hymnbooks.

(RNS) — More than 800 people, mostly members of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, voted during the competition that featured brackets similar to the springtime NCAA basketball ...

Tennessee Ernie Ford was one of country music’s defining voices of the 1950s. He reached crossover appeal with his cover of Merle Travis’s pensive tune, “Sixteen Tons,” which chronicled the life of a ...

There was a time when hymns were used primarily to drive home the message that came from the pulpit. But then came the praise songs. Matt Redman's song "Our God" is the most popular piece of music in ...