Two old hymnals, both well worn, rest on a desk in Roger E. Olson’s home office in Waco, Texas. The leading theologian used one hymnal in his childhood. The other comes from the church he attended as ...

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 ...

In any case, although your pastor and choir director have the responsibility of planning the music for public parish Masses, ...

*Although screen monitors are used these days, I remember the interaction while sharing a hymnal and singing together with the person next to me in church – pointing out each stanza on each staff to ...

EVERETT — Pastor Al Baunsgard is ready to sing. On Sunday he’ll welcome others to the Hymn Sing at Bethany Christian Assembly and warm up his vocal cords singing several old gospel hymns. The ...

As people of Jewish faith observe Passover this week on Zoom, for Christians it is Holy Week, ending with Easter Sunday. Music is at the core of many religious rituals. Because of the COVID-19 ...

It's one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

Joel D’Amico’s head bobs to the music drifting from inside Boathouse Collective in Costa Mesa, where a pulsating crowd is packed in front of the stage. He watches from an open doorway, pausing every ...

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 ...