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 ...

Debra James Tucker knows enough about gospel music to fill multiple hymnals, but no song can top “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.” “I sing because I’m happy / I sing because I’m free,” the chorus, written ...

A mostly black gospel choir in Utah is bringing a vibrant new sound to familiar Mormon hymns and shining a light on the increasingly global component of a faith that has more than half of its members ...

Children’s minister and artist collect 150 songs to span generations. In 2018, Britta Wallbaum and Lindsey Goetz traveled to a worship conference in Nashville. They hoped to come away with new ...

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Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his publisher ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Eleven new hymns have been added to the new hymnbook for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Officials of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced the upcoming release of "Hymns--for Home and Church." The consolidated collection of 450 to 500 ...

Brian McLaren, the liberal “emergent” evangelical activist, re-emerged last week to announce that he is rewriting the hymn “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” The hymn is too warlike, he writes, as is much ...

William S. Pitts was an American composer and physician born in 1830 in New York. He demonstrated musical talent from a young age and began taking formal music lessons. He wrote the famous hymn The ...