MARION - The annual summer hymn sing of the First Congregational Church of Marion will be held on Sunday, July 30, at 10 a.m. The hymns will be set to tunes whose names are associated with cathedral ...
*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 ...
Often people who don’t go to church think that those who do go spend their time there singing hymns. Yet there is no explicit provision for parish hymn-singing in the Book of Common Prayer, and, in ...
As part of a project that started more than six years ago, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released online 13 hymns to be added to the new Hymns—for Home and Church hymnbook. The ...
A pair of Presbyterian Church (USA) pastors and hymnwriters, Stephen M. Fearing and Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, joined earlier this month to offer a virtual workshop on hymns that resist Christian ...
WASHINGTON — The doctrine committee of the US bishops’ conference (USCCB) earlier this year produced a guide to evaluating the lyrics of hymns on the basis of their doctrinal content, noting that ...
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 ...
Conductor Donald Nally leads The Crossing in a rehearsal of David Lang's''poor hymnal,'' at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey ...
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 ...