Gospel music, a powerful thread in Black culture, continues to shape Black identity and inspire generations. As Black Music ...

The resilience, faith and purity of African American hymns come to life at the Historic Ward Rooming House with “Precious ...

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 ...

Singing in church requires the congregation to be resourced to join in. Hymn books, hymn sheets, full service orders, and large screens and projectors all have their place, although rarely in the same ...

In the April 2025 general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, choirs sang seven of the new additions to the global hymnbook, “Hymns—For Home and Church.” ...

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) The global faith currently plans to release “Hymns—for Home and Church” in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French by the end of 2026.

The hymns that can be recast with “Zion” as an idealized “pure in heart” theme can stay (e.g., #41, #47), while the ones that explicitly refer to Zion as a mountain refuge or that are just ...

CNA Staff, Oct 31, 2024 / 15:40 pm The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will implement a formal ban this week on the singing of certain contemporary hymns at Mass because of doctrinal ...

Several popular hymns were found to have deficiencies in their presentation of Eucharistic doctrine, which was “by far the most common and the most serious” cause of concern regarding the songs.