If you were a free Black person living in antebellum Philadelphia, you may have worked as an astrologer, an oyster catcher, ...

The fourth annual benefit concert in honor of Oberlin Weekday Community Meals will take place at 7 p.m. Oct. 29 at The First Church in Oberlin, 106 N. Main St., according to a news release. “Bringing ...

I was filling my backpack in preparation for a sabbatical and included my Bible and a small handful of books, but had not intended to take a hymnal. However, it ...

The combined congregation of St. John’s Episcopal Church and Grace Lutheran Church in Franklin will celebrate Grace Lutheran’s 175th anniversary on Thursday at noon at St. John’s.

John-Michael Tebelak (September 17, 1949 – April 2, 1985) was an American playwright and director. He was best known for creating the musical Godspell, based on the Gospel of Saint Matthew. Stephen ...

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The music swelled through the Gothic nave and died away. At the organ console beside the apse, a white-haired little man of 79 turned off the organ switch and gathered up his music. Dr. T. Tertius ...

“A hymn should be a prayer set to music,” says the Rev. Gerrit Barnes of Denver’s Christ Church (Episcopal). “It should follow the idea of ‘make a joyful noise unto the Lord.”’ Ideas change about what ...

I am featuring the Hymn “Silent Night” because the Dakota children learned this hymn in boarding school. This hymn is in Dakota, a language the boarding school children were punished for speaking.

The scene looked the same, just as it does every Sunday: We thanked God for the gifts of the table. Together, we sang “The Sanctus,” and then the celebrant spoke of Scripture — when, at the Passover ...