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 ...

A permanent exhibit acknowledging Cleveland, Tenn., as the birthplace of “The Church Hymnal” is located inside the Museum Center at Five Points, 200 E. Inman St., in Cleveland.“The Red Back: America’s ...

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 ...

*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 ...

Protestant reformer Martin Luther planted the seed that grew into a rich musical tradition culminating in Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach was a Lutheran by profession, a Lutheran by personal persuasion, ...

In 1819, the cornerstone for a small church was laid along Reading Road in East Earl Township. It was known as “Center Church” because of its central location from four local churches — New ...

New hymnals, a.k.a. “Worship Books,” are forthcoming from numerous church bodies, including two Lutheran groups (among them my own ELCA). Having studied none of these books, I write with vincible ...

Christian congregations have not always been allowed to lift up their hearts in songs of praise. St. Ambrose, 4th Century Bishop of Milan and teacher of St. Augustine, seems to have started ...

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 ...