Nothing like a golden oldie on the radio to get the feet tapping and the memories rolling. But for First Congregational Church of Houston, which prides itself on a progressive theology and an ...

LITTLE ROCK — It’s a multiyear project and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a church music leader — the chance to edit a largescale hymnal project for a major U.S. denomination. Church musician ...

When I attend out-of-town church meetings with Leslie, I busy myself for an hour or so as he goes about his business. Sometimes I relax or read in the church library or lounge. Oftentimes I head for ...

Evangelicals seeking permanence and rootedness are reclaiming the practice of singing out of books. Before the service starts on Sunday morning at San Diego Reformed Church, the building fills with ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — A Christian hymnal called “The Sacred Harp” is at the heart of a more than 180-year-old American singing tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music. Initially ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” ...

65 years into this life, Ray Wylie Hubbard might have found the key to inner peace: keeping your gratitude higher than your expectations. Don’t let the fact that he shares that nugget of wisdom during ...

‘I have always liked to work toward one goal,” wrote Johann Sebastian Bach in 1708, “namely, to conduct a well-regulated church music to the glory of God.” Bach (1685-1750) composed an immense body of ...

As part of a series called "My Big Break," All Things Considered is collecting stories of triumph, big and small. These are the moments when everything seems to click, and people leap forward into ...