The acapella music tradition of these churches provided the soundtrack to singer Ginny Hawker’s childhood. She grew up near Chincoteague, Virginia where her father worked construction. But every ...
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, ...
Grammy Award-winning songwriter and worship leader Matt Redman has written hundreds, maybe thousands of songs in his celebrated career. For his latest release, however, he only wrote one verse that ...
Songwriters and hit worship singers including Matt Maher, Chris Tomlin, and Mitch Wong come together to celebrate the hymn’s 75th anniversary. Cliff Barrow’s announcement at Billy Graham’s New York ...
I have to confess that my heart sinks when we sing a song in church that’s less than 30 years old. Hymns are one of the only remaining doors through which names, sounds, and words from the church’s ...
President Russell M. Nelson, head of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who last year shared a 2022 video of him playing “Silent Night” on the piano, penned the lyrics to “ Our Prayer to ...
A phone with the new hymns displayed is posed on top of a physical copy of a hymn book. Christopher West said hymns are like prayers to Heavenly Father. (Kiana Aquino) BYU students shared their ...