“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 ...

It’s no wonder many of the church’s great prayers and meditations have been set to music through the ages. Comforting, convicting and inspiring verses are made even more stirring and memorable with ...

Lifelong church musician Benjamin Harlan has lived a dynamic musical score for more than 40 years, but as the writer, composer and professor reaches his career’s coda, he has decided to instead write ...

Religion-and-alcohol groups are popping up across the United States In Nashville%2C a group meets once quarterly and sing hymns in a bar Beer and Hymn Sing is attracting a growing number of people of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sophia Andrade sings in Portuguese accompanied by Kristen Bromley and Brady Bills at the Salt Lake City Tabernacle in Salt Lake ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the upcoming release of its new hymnbook, "Hymns—for Home and Church," after an extensive six-year development ...

Fanny J. Crosby was a blind hymn writer who inspired generations through her deep faith and powerful lyrics. Despite losing her sight shortly after birth, she wrote over 8,000 hymns that touched ...

The beer flows freely in Nashville, and Gallup polling just placed Tennessee in the nation’s top 10 most religious states, but those two facts tend not to overlap. A growing exception: an ...