The Free Church of Scotland has voted to relax its rules to allow hymn singing and the use of instruments in its churches. A plenary assembly gathered in Edinburgh to rule on the change. Unaccompanied ...

No matter the language, Maria R. Nieva is pleased to greet the Blessed Mother in song. Nieva, a music minister in Our Lady of ...

The offer was music to the ears of the Evergreen Baptist Church. It felt like a miracle had happened, said Beverly Cruthirds, a longtime member of the church. Something that we really, really wanted ...

Nowhere was music more essential than in church. The hymns people sang on Sunday mornings warned them of God’s eternal judgment, but also offered the promise of salvation—even to the sinners who had ...

I visited Bethany Free Will Baptist Church’s 11 a.m. service Dec. 29. The church sits between the North Fox Hall and Sherwood neighborhoods on Azalea Garden Road. Sitting with Kathy and Mick Shaw, I ...

Wendy Lynn Platt wrote "Help Us Remember" for the 1997 Church Music Festival. Now it is in the new global hymnbook. She hopes it helps people look more closely at the ordinance of the sacrament.

At the beginning of the Christmas Eve service at Lititz Moravian Church, the congregation is cloaked in darkness as it begins to sing “Stille Nacht” — the German version of “Silent Night.” “It’s so ...

LEWISVILLE — War put a stop to Iris Davis' piano lessons as a teen. World War II later introduced her to her future husband, who brought her from London to Lewisville. In the small Watonwan County ...

The Free Church of Scotland has voted to relax its rules to allow hymn singing and the use of instruments in its churches. A plenary assembly gathered in Edinburgh to rule on the change. Unaccompanied ...