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, ...

The Church of the Brethren has gone from plain to mainstream in its 300 years. But despite the transformation, the 130,000-member church has remained rooted in Pietism and Anabaptism and true to its ...

In many ways, the religious practices of the Old Brethren are like those of other Christians. Their religious lives center on studying the Bible, prayer, worship and Holy Communion, for example. Yet, ...

The Martindale Mennonite Fellowship Center will host an educational lecture on March 30 at 7 p.m. on the first known Ausbund. This song book of early hymns is still use by the Amish today. In the 16th ...