Lifelong church musician Benjamin Harlan has lived a dynamic musical score for more than 40 years, but as the writer, composer and professor reaches his career’s coda, he has decided to instead write ...

Though many churches are replacing traditional hymns with more upbeat "praise songs," Dale Wiley is determined to preserve the classic church music of his youth. Hymn fan Wiley shares some ...

It's one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

Christian congregations have not always been allowed to lift up their hearts in songs of praise. St. Ambrose, 4th Century Bishop of Milan and teacher of St. Augustine, seems to have started ...

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, ...