NORTHUMBERLAND — The Rev. Richard Speck, executive of the Joseph Priestley District, will speak during an informal program of words and music from 9:30 to 10 a.m. Sunday at the Joseph Priestley ...

Oscar winner Frances McDormand reunites with the Wooster Group to replicate a 1976 recording of 19th-century hymns sung by Shaker women. By THR Staff Early Shaker Spirituals Production Still - H 2015 ...

Hymns are “important in the history of ideas, the formation of culture, and the inner life of individual readers,” J. R. Watson reminds us in this time when the disciplines of hymn writing and singing ...

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The fat red Service Book and Hymnal used by the Lutheran Church in America includes ten hymns with words or music by Martin Luther—and not one of them is among the top ten favorites of Lutherans today ...