First Congregational Church of Houston has something to sing about. The congregation is celebrating 20 years since creating its own hymnal, a major labor of love. The collection has grown in ...

A permanent exhibit acknowledging Cleveland, Tenn., as the birthplace of “The Church Hymnal” is located inside the Museum Center at Five Points, 200 E. Inman St., in Cleveland.“The Red Back: America’s ...

(RNS) After 33 years and many requests for an update, the LDS Church is revising its hymnal to reflect Mormonism's global membership. (RNS) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced ...

Fans of a beloved contemporary Christian hymn won’t find any satisfaction in a new church hymnal. The committee putting together a new hymnal for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) dropped the popular ...

Ask any Christian, and they’re likely to tell you their earliest experiences of religion are ones of music. The memories of voices swelling with song or a grandmother softly humming a favorite tune ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's a hymn that the faithful start singing whenever a Baptist church organist plays the opening chords -- because everyone knows it by heart. All together now: "When peace like a river attendeth my ...

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 ...

These days, German church congregations have a wide-ranging choice between timeless classic hymns and contemporary church music - a mixture that is as colorful as the secular music charts. "Sing to ...

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 ...