So when a couple asked to have the popular hymns sung at their wedding ... on England by the Industrial Revolution. In 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, composer Sir Hubert Parry put the ...

3. Psalms and early hymns were often “lined out,” with every line said by a leader before it was sung by the congregation. (See “The Hymn Explosion” for a fuller explanation.) This often ...

Yet even at their annual worship conference, there’s room for multiple styles of music to declare the stories of the Bible.

The lyrics of this hymn were written by Charitie Lees Bancroft. Despite popularity during the 1870s ... particularly popular by a recording of it, sung by Cat Stevens, that made no.1 in the ...

There's nothing like the sound of Christmas hymns to evoke the joy ... Whom shepherds guard and angels sing; / Haste, haste to bring him laud, / The babe, the son of Mary.” ...

Two newly discovered hymns written by a celebrated British composer have been sung for the "first time in living memory". Works by Sir Edward Bairstow were found by chance in Blackburn Central ...

At a 2015 service in memory of the nine people shot and killed at the oldest Black church in the South, eulogist Barack Obama began to sing ... Americans. During a period of evangelical revival in the ...

President Ronald Reagan designated August 14 National Navajo Code Talkers Day in honor of the American Indians who joined the Marine Corps in World War II and lent ... sing the fabled Marine Corps ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Q: When is it permitted to use the liturgies from the Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary during Lent and Advent? A: According to No. 21 of the ...

Mr. Jennings grew up absorbing the hymns sung at the Methodist church where his paternal grandfather served as minister, as well those at an African American Baptist church near his home.