The Daily Yonder highlights a centuries-old Appalachian hymn singing tradition, still uplifting souls through heartfelt ...
Four hundred years ago, the ancestors of the song leaders who recently gathered in an Ephrata-area church likely would have sung the same hymns in the same way. They would have been sung in German, ...
“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 ...