Sister Amiya spent 42 years as a teacher and has been a passionate composer of sacred music. The Bangladeshi religious has written lyrics for more than 100 hymns.

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 ...

Nothing like a golden oldie on the radio to get the feet tapping and the memories rolling. But for First Congregational Church of Houston, which prides itself on a progressive theology and an ...

*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 ...

Tips for those who want to go more traditional. Are you or someone in your church interesting in singing more hymns? At his blog In Light of the Gospel, James Grant shares a few suggestions for ...

HOWARD LAKE, Minn — At St. John's Lutheran Church in Howard Lake, the 55-year-old organ led the parish in times of joy and hardship. Now it's the parishioners' turn to take care of it. “To build this ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - A concert, Refreshment for the Soul, is taking place on October 26 at First Lutheran ...

Members of the Ethnic Committee are shown, from left, first row: Carol Jones Wolosz, Heidi Ceklosky, Jean Bonn, Bette Lee Devers and Betty Jones. Second row: Bill Morgan, Kevin Ceklosky, Scott Jones, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In May 1731, the English Presbyterian Philip Doddridge wrote to his older colleague in the Nonconformist ministry, Isaac Watts, about a midweek worship service he had recently conducted in a barn for ...