Songs that kindled memories of growing up in churches during the 1940s and 1950s are fading into silence. And the four-part harmony that many of them required could go with them into history, ...

%27In Christ Alone%27 a favorite new hymn with youth Gettys write songs as lasting testament They want their music to connect with souls NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Most songwriters in Nashville want to get ...

Looks like alms aren’t going to be enough for this congregation. The Old South Church in Boston, one of the oldest in the nation, just voted to auction off a 372-hymn book worth $10 to $20 million. It ...

Music discovered in a 500-year-old religious book in Scotland turns out to be “lost” score, researchers said. The University of Edinburgh Centuries ago in the rolling hills of northeastern Scotland, ...

(RNS) — In the 1890s, a pair of British archaeologists began digging in an ancient rubbish heap at the edge of the ruins of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, looking for a glimpse into the city’s past. They’d ...

Read the sidebar article on the making of the new PCUSA hymnal. Hymnals are more like telephones than automobile tires. Tires wear out visibly and require replacing. Telephones, on the other hand, ...