Not long ago a radio speaker declared that a good Bible hour is better than a dozen sermons. One may be justified in saying also that a good evangelical hymn is better than much of the preaching one ...

Some claim music is rooted in our souls. Yet, if you've ever suffered through a tone-deaf friend singing along with the radio to one of your favorite tunes, you know that's not always true. When it ...

Familiar hymns are hard to find in many churches these days, but a local church will be bringing them back during a special musical program this week. Walnut View Christian Church, 3634 S.E. 37th, ...

MARION — Some churches have them, that half-page sized red book, filled with hundreds of pages of hymns. In a little more than a week, local organizers will celebrate that style of singing — and those ...

Brian McLaren, the liberal “emergent” evangelical activist, re-emerged last week to announce that he is rewriting the hymn “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” The hymn is too warlike, he writes, as is much ...

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Executive director Steve Gilreath talks celebrating a wide variety of faith-based music and intersections with secular ...

Covenant Church, 9259 Hixson Pike, Soddy Daisy, hosted a community-wide “Southern Gospel Hymn Sing” on Friday night. The public was invited to be a part of incredible music and inspiration led by one ...

William S. Pitts was an American composer and physician born in 1830 in New York. He demonstrated musical talent from a young age and began taking formal music lessons. He wrote the famous hymn The ...

A Birmingham church held a hymnfest Sunday with at least 20 hymns chosen based on their broad appeal throughout the South. Renowned organist John Schwandt of Oklahoma played at 2:30 p.m. at East Lake ...

Churches are retiring their hymnals and organs, hoping to attract younger crowds, but at West Auburn Congregational in Maine, Charles Marshall has been playing for 70 years with no plans to retire.

Earlier this year, Marty Raybon laid down a stunning cover of Squire Parsons’ “Sweet Beulah Land” at a recent show, and it ...