In a programme packed with music, Pam Rhodes celebrates Pentecost through the hymns and songs that explore the meaning of the ...

Historian teams up with Chris Tomlin and Hillsong’s Ben Fielding to adapt rare music dating back to the third century. Historian John Dickson knows that “early” Christian music usually refers to ...

Noreen Schofield knows she did her job if her fellow parishioners leave Mass feeling better than they did when they arrived. The music she and her fellow Catholics provide each weekend at Mary, Mother ...

A young woman plays a hymn on the piano from the Church's Spanish hymnbook. In June 2018, members around the world were invited to submit original musical numbers to be considered for the new Hymnbook ...

Looking back at the painful and difficult history of being Black in America, religion has always been an important cultural and spiritual backbone — constantly sustaining and replenishing the ...

“Hymns—for Home and Church,” a sacred music collection of between 450 to 500 hymns and children’s songs for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be available digitally and in print ...

There was a time when hymns were used primarily to drive home the message that came from the pulpit. But then came the praise songs. Matt Redman's song "Our God" is the most popular piece of music in ...

The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will implement a formal ban this week on the singing of certain contemporary hymns at Mass because of doctrinal inaccuracies in their lyrics as well as a ...

Program director Michael Roberts demonstrates the Great Catholic Music app for listeners. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Chris Cugini, Living Bread Radio.) Listen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Catholics hear hymns ...

WASHINGTON — The doctrine committee of the US bishops’ conference (USCCB) earlier this year produced a guide to evaluating the lyrics of hymns on the basis of their doctrinal content, noting that ...

Four hundred years ago, the ancestors of the song leaders who recently gathered in an Ephrata-area church likely would have sung the same hymns in the same way. They would have been sung in German, ...

WAUSAU - The writing comes harder now for Joy Patterson, at age 85 and with failing eyesight and limited hearing. But Patterson has been composing hymns and music since 1976, and the ideas still ...