Stephen Jones currently works as a professor in the School of Music at BYU. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in music composition from BYU and a master's and doctorate in music composition from ...

SALT LAKE CITY — More than 400 hymns and children's songs will be included in a new combined book to be released by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2026. While the full book will be ...

Randall Sensmeier has spent decades playing the organ, composing music and leading congregations in song. But he has also been bringing to light new church composers and their work. The 74-year-old ...

Ask any Christian, and they’re likely to tell you their earliest experiences of religion are ones of music. The memories of voices swelling with song or a grandmother softly humming a favorite tune ...

DUXBURY — Hymn music from a 165-year-old pipe organ filled the sanctuary at First Parish Church, the tones rich and mellow, yet so powerful a visitor could almost feel the music vibrating in her chest ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: One of the problems of many churches — of all varieties — is finding and keeping really good music directors. For many of the best of them, it takes a sacrificial devotion to ...

“A hymn should be a prayer set to music,” says the Rev. Gerrit Barnes of Denver’s Christ Church (Episcopal). “It should follow the idea of ‘make a joyful noise unto the Lord.”’ Ideas change about what ...

(RNS) After 33 years and many requests for an update, the LDS Church is revising its hymnal to reflect Mormonism's global membership. (RNS) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced ...

Heritage Baptist Church of Manheim will host an old-fashioned Hymn Sing at 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31, at the Manheim Community Farm Show Exhibition Center, 502 E. Adele Ave. Every fifth Sunday of the ...

A woman prays during a Black History Month Mass of thanksgiving Feb. 28, 2021, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Lead me, guide me, along the way. For ...

Nowhere was music more essential than in church. The hymns people sang on Sunday mornings warned them of God’s eternal judgment, but also offered the promise of salvation—even to the sinners who had ...