The number of Americans who identify as Christians has declined in recent years, from 78.4 percent in 2007 to 70.6 percent in 2014. That drop-off is most pronounced among young Americans, but it cuts ...

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 ...

Martin Luther, best known for his powerful hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” was a German composer and theologian who changed the course of church music. His work was groundbreaking, as he brought ...

As part of a project that started more than six years ago, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released online 13 hymns to be added to the new Hymns—for Home and Church hymnbook. The ...

Multi-Platinum star and three-time GRAMMY Award winner Darius Rucker reveals new music with today's release of redemptive ballad "Ol' Church Hymn" featuring rising trio Chapel Hart. The song comes on ...

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette creates “sung prayers” for a problem that seems difficult to solve while also spurring people to end gun violence. Her hymn “335,609 (I Cried to God),” sung to the tune of “Be ...

These days, German church congregations have a wide-ranging choice between timeless classic hymns and contemporary church music - a mixture that is as colorful as the secular music charts. "Sing to ...

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 ...

Churches are retiring their hymnals and organs, hoping to attract younger crowds, but at West Auburn Congregational in Maine, Charles Marshall has been playing for 70 years with no plans to retire.

The growth of the Anglican Church in East and Central Africa has resulted in the loss of the church's singing traditions. Over the years, the church has come up with different tunes for its hymns. The ...

(RNS) The new verses that the Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette pens are tools for moving people beyond the paralysis they may feel when they hear the latest bad news. (RNS) Gun violence has reached a ...