“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 ...

The sound system next door is making it hard for Olga Lopatina to love thy neighbor: Christ the King church.Since last summer, the church has been broadcasting the sounds of bells and hymns to its ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Officials of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced the upcoming release of "Hymns--for Home and Church." The consolidated collection of 450 to 500 ...

At the close of Sunday's service, the congregants in the mostly empty pews of First Congregational Church sang the hymn "Joyful Joyful, We Adore Thee" and then proclaimed "Let us go forth" before ...

Lifelong church musician Benjamin Harlan has lived a dynamic musical score for more than 40 years, but as the writer, composer and professor reaches his career’s coda, he has decided to instead write ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) A Vermont Roman Catholic church's electronic broadcast of bells and hymns is clashing with some residents of a neighborhood... May 04, 2015 — BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) A Vermont Roman ...