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 ...

"Has the Black church choir become like the dry bones in the valley?" ...

Christian congregations have not always been allowed to lift up their hearts in songs of praise. St. Ambrose, 4th Century Bishop of Milan and teacher of St. Augustine, seems to have started ...

Protestant reformer Martin Luther planted the seed that grew into a rich musical tradition culminating in Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach was a Lutheran by profession, a Lutheran by personal persuasion, ...

Ten years after Keith and Kristyn Getty launched what was intended to be a one-time event celebrating a book about ...

A permanent exhibit acknowledging Cleveland, Tenn., as the birthplace of “The Church Hymnal” is located inside the Museum Center at Five Points, 200 E. Inman St., in Cleveland.“The Red Back: America’s ...

Gathering for the first time since the pandemic, the interdenominational group discussed the importance of global churches finding their own rhythms. Rahel Daulay, a Methodist who had traveled from ...

New hymnals, a.k.a. “Worship Books,” are forthcoming from numerous church bodies, including two Lutheran groups (among them my own ELCA). Having studied none of these books, I write with vincible ...

Keith and Kristyn Getty, a Nashville-based, modern hymn-writing duo, want you to sing in church. More specifically, they want you and the rest of your congregation to sing together. "Congregational ...