But Hetland says he still loves the music of the church. He moved to New York in the 1960s, and in 1973 put an ad in the Village Voice looking for singers who shared his love. Janet Pascal was one ...

On a January morning in 2022, the basement of Church of the Redeemer, an Anglican church in a quiet Nashville neighborhood, smelled like food for the first time in months. Someone was preparing a ...

As a church musician, I've been known to program what I thought were familiar Charles Wesley hymns, only to find my non-Methodist song leaders tongue-tied by the ambitious melodies and ...

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sing selections from “Hymns — For Home and Church” during a sacrament meeting in Murray on June 1.

His 14-year-old daughter was among the dead. Updating the church website with information would have to wait — the webmaster was in the hospital taking care of his daughter. They’d both been shot.

Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament of reconciliation is in Genesis 4. Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger brother, Abel. God, like he did with Adam, tries to elicit ...

On June 20, 1943, 53 adults and seven children chartered Holy Trinity during a service at the Cocke County Courthouse. The ...

Chances are, if you've actually been to church in the past decade, you've heard it, or sung it yourself. In fact, in a 2013 survey of the best-loved hymns in the U.K., ...

Picture this: It's sometime in the early 1990s, in rural Oklahoma. There's a little Baptist church – it's Sunday, and inside of the church everyone is wearing their nicest clothes.

The church also is soliciting hymns and songs from multiple cultural styles. Mormons already are lighting up social media with songs — including some old standards like “Amazing Grace” and ...