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 ...

(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 ...

The Presbyterian Church in Westfield invites the community to special services on Sunday, Feb. 2, to dedicate the new church hymnal. Hymnal Dedication Sunday will take place in the chapel at the 8 a.m ...

Hymns that are liked by the people are a good choice, but it’s also important that they convey the Catholic faith,’ said ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOWARD LAKE, Minn — At St. John's Lutheran Church in Howard Lake, the 55-year-old organ led the parish in times of joy and hardship. Now it's the parishioners' turn to take care of it. “To build this ...

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 ...

It was a celebration of their faith and the musical heritage that church founders had brought from Wales decades ago. “I love the singing in Welsh,” Jane Uhing of Nanticoke said afterward, as ...