Sitting and looking out on the frothy waves crashing on the rugged shoreline outside the window of our room at an inn in ...

The Daily Yonder highlights a centuries-old Appalachian hymn singing tradition, still uplifting souls through heartfelt ...

Walk into most black churches Sunday morning and you're more likely to hear the choir sing from the gospel top 40 list than sing old-time "Negro spirituals" or hymns from traditional hymnbooks.

I visited Bethany Free Will Baptist Church’s 11 a.m. service Dec. 29. The church sits between the North Fox Hall and Sherwood neighborhoods on Azalea Garden Road. Sitting with Kathy and Mick Shaw, I ...

Worship leaders convince curriculum company of the value of lifewayworship.com. In July 2023, the company announced its plan to retire the platform—a “digital hymnal” that provides users with chord ...

It's a hymn that the faithful start singing whenever a Baptist church organist plays the opening chords -- because everyone knows it by heart. All together now: "When peace like a river attendeth my ...

Lifeway still plans to end online music resource but apologizes for short notice. Update (July 24): Lifeway has decided to postpone the discontinuation of lifewayworship.com, the online Baptist church ...

It's about time for the Southern Baptist Convention to put out a new hymnal, and the move to update the songs has caused a little tension. A glut of new worship songs has led to sweeping changes in ...

“Amazing Grace” as it appears in Ginny Hawker’s family heirloom songbook, Lloyd’s Primitive Baptist Hymns. You can see stains in the margins, left by the tobacco-covered hands of her aunt Annie Maud ...