Carolyn Winfrey Gillette is a composer who wishes her music was not so popular. One of her works, titled "If We Just Talk of Thoughts and Prayers," is a biblically based response to politicians who, ...

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 ...

Hymn writing should be a spiritual practice for everyday saints, not just for worship professionals. Anyone who has grown up in or around the church is likely familiar with “hymn stories”—the stories ...

Legendary composer Irving Berlin wrote his iconic God Bless America for a musical revue while in the Army during World War I, but he shelved it. One hundred years later, it turns out his patriotic ...

PARIS (AP) — Some kneeled, some folded their hands to make silent entreaties. Others sang with their eyes focused on the sky that had gone from blue to yellow and orange, and filled with acrid smoke.

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SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released 11 new hymns on Thursday, marking 48 songs so far in the church's new "Hymns — For Home and Church" hymnbook that have been ...

In some ways, the battered old prayer book that Catherine Coldwell used to take with her to church every Sunday in Fort St. James was a symbol of her native culture. Dating to the 1930s, the book -- ...