The number of Americans who identify as Christians has declined in recent years, from 78.4 percent in 2007 to 70.6 percent in 2014. That drop-off is most pronounced among young Americans, but it cuts ...

Often people who don’t go to church think that those who do go spend their time there singing hymns. Yet there is no explicit ...

TGMA Gospel Music Promotions is hosting a Gospel Praise Gathering group hymn singing event at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 24 at Ada ...

A Scottish church has voted to allow the singing of hymns and playing of musical instruments for the first time in 160 years, according to a report. The Free Church of Scotland, which split from the ...

Randall Sensmeier has spent decades playing the organ, composing music and leading congregations in song. But he has also been bringing to light new church composers and their work. The 74-year-old ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Officials of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced the upcoming release of "Hymns--for Home and Church." The consolidated collection of 450 to 500 ...

A hymn for the homeless and affordable housing? For environmental stewardship or gay rights or religious tolerance? Thanks to the Macalester Plymouth United Church of St. Paul, your church hymnal ...

Randall Black has fond memories of growing up singing in a small church. He recalls the hymns offered up at Carbondale’s Grace United Methodist Church, and he remembers the way those songs were sung. ...

Two old hymnals, both well worn, rest on a desk in Roger E. Olson’s home office in Waco, Texas. The leading theologian used one hymnal in his childhood. The other comes from the church he attended as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Eleven new hymns have been added to the new hymnbook for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ...

Stephen Jones currently works as a professor in the School of Music at BYU. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in music composition from BYU and a master's and doctorate in music composition from ...

SALT LAKE CITY — More than 400 hymns and children's songs will be included in a new combined book to be released by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2026. While the full book will be ...