Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shift to contemporary worship music—what we're most familiar with today—began in the 1960s. In the United States, the climate ...

Black church choirs are dwindling as praise teams rise across many congregations, a shift shaped by COVID-19, changing church ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Yahoo News entertainment reporter, Kelsey Weekman, about a spate of new pop songs that draw on worship traditions in megachurches. ALEX WARREN: (Singing) They say the ...

Claire McCollum visits the Cornish coast to share the remarkable history of 'the church of storms' - a place of prayer where Christians have worshipped since the church's namesake first arrived during ...

The set of American Idol turned into church earlier this week as contestants broke into a song of praise! In a video shared to social media by Season 23 contestant Rylie O'Neil, we see a group of Idol ...

But the Easter special was a reminder of how the church influences mainstream music. At the time, American Idol was in its eighth season, and it was the singular singing competition in the burgeoning ...