RICHMOND, Va. -- Three years after it was facing the wrecking ball, the century-old Second Baptist Church building beside The Jefferson Hotel is set to be reborn. Historic Hotels of Richmond, the Bill ...

“Amazing Grace” as it appears in Ginny Hawker’s family heirloom songbook, Lloyd’s Primitive Baptist Hymns. You can see stains in the margins, left by the tobacco-covered hands of her aunt Annie Maud ...

Houston’s Second Baptist is a church currently battling many of its own members. In April, a group of former and current congregants, calling themselves the Jeremiah Counsel, sued the nearly ...

Pensacola is set to take ownership of the old Baptist Hospital campus on Sept. 29, and demolition of the hospital buildings will tentatively begin in December. Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves confirmed ...

Remember when Ernest and Morgan Wallen sang an old Christian hymn called "'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus"? Well, if you forgot, Ernest took a moment to remind all of us — and maybe tease something ...

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to have been lost. By Aishvarya Kavi The Rev. John Odams, pastor of the ...

UPDATE: The SJBPSO provided an update on Friday around 5 p.m. stating that two men, identified as 17-year-old Jaydon Williams, of LaPlace, and 17-year-old Damon Brown Jr., of Reserve, were arrested in ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing from it, carrying on the Christian songbook's more than 180-year-old legacy. They are young and old — and all ages in between.

Isaac Green, 34, flips through his personal copy of "The Sacred Harp," a shape-note hymnal linked to a more than 180-year-old American folk singing tradition, at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church ...