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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced plans to release its new hymnbook in mid-2027. It will feature about 375 hymns, and about one-third of those will be children's songs.
By Sue Prideaux “A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.” Ian Penman, a post-punk music ...
The more than 180-year-old compilation of sacred songs uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds.
James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a ...
I attend a Bible reading group. We read scriptures from the lectionary that many churches use. Synagogues in the time of ...
Our family has never had a vegetable garden. The only field on our property is a septic field. The closest thing to produce ...
Progress is good. But not all loss is visible. Sometimes it hides in a blinking light that no longer works, or a song that ...
As Wilson writes, “Magical thinking is a much bigger feature of human life than most of us usually allow for.” A Training ...
In 'Requiem,' her fifth book, Virginia Konchan takes the sacred seriously. She’s jocular with her subjects, including God, ...
Though the faith-based film they made didn’t exactly connect with audiences, Johnny and June Carter continued to return to ...
I’ll never forget the first time Brian Wilson made me see God. It was 1973, and I was sitting in the mostly empty balcony of a second-run movie theater finally watching “American Graffiti,” the movie ...