Old texts have been refreshed by new tunes and lots more contemporary hymns have sprung up. In the non-traditional church movement there has been a move away from the previous style of ...

The 1850 hymn is still popular in church services across the country, beginning with the soaring lines "It came upon the midnight clear, / That glorious song of old, / From angels bending near the ...

Neale, Mediaeval Hymns, 1851, additional verses and alternative translations ... and therefore also of the Church to Israel: The Old Testament was understood to have spiritual validity only when read ...

Frieich Wiesner of Old Time Music wrote last month ... The origin of the hymn derived from the creation of the Episcopal ...

on the hymn Cultor Dei.” The researchers reached out to singers, wrote up the score and recorded the audio to bring the centuries-old tune to life. You can listen to it in the video below.

To demonstrate that connection, several of the new hymns aren ... the hymnal is that the old hymnal expresses only “limited cultural representation of the global church,” I expect those ...

The first of three 2025 Hymn Festivals offered by area congregations to celebrate the “Music of the Church” will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, at Christ the Lord Lutheran, 12N462 Tina Trail ...

Music plays an important part in worship in the Methodist Church. There is a strong tradition of singing. Charles Wesley (brother of John Wesley) wrote over 7,000 hymns, many of which are still ...