The Village Church welcomes everyone to “The Faith We Sing,” a free festival of hymns with brass and organ on Sunday, Jan. 26 ...
Next month is Valentine’s Day, and metalcore crew Church Tongue announced today that they’ll be celebrating the romantic holiday with a brutal EP, You’ll Know It Was Me. The deafening single “Bury Me ...
A video authentically shows people inside a church singing Madonna's "Like a Prayer" around Christmastime.
The song "Amazing Grace" was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years.
Hymn lyrics and melodies from countries such as ... “The Iona Community was one of the earliest church communities to sing songs from places like Africa before it became something that was ...
Learn about the origins of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel,' 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' and 'Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.' ...
The lyrics call out for Jesus to "be near me" and "bless all the dear children." "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" is a hymn and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church ...
Church leaders urge clergy to use language ... The Bishop added: “The lyrics in some of our hymns, even those that have been sung for many years, are not always understood as having their ...
As Christians gather at churches across the world to celebrate Christmas, songs of old, those dating back more than a century and passed down through generations, will fill candle-lit sanctuaries.
Arriving home, he jotted down the lyrics. Then he asked his wife Gloria to write ... He as the rector of a Pennsylvania church and wrote the hymn for a Christmas pageant. The song was published in ...
Church music developed through the following centuries, with the Mass punctuated by specified Latin chants, which were more elaborate during special seasons in the church year, especially Christmas ...
Then there was the music, provided by several choirs, the church organ, and a small orchestra ... he had gone to the trouble of creating a new, old-style hymn for the service, written in the ...