Music has been called "the vocabulary of American religion." The early evangelical Protestant hymns, penned in the 18th and 19th centuries, typically run three to seven verses, sometimes with no ...

Traditional hymns may be fading as churches look to contemporary music to attract younger crowds, but Dave Talbott is keeping the old music alive. Retired in September after 41 years as director of… ...

The annual Sing! Global conference, held Sept. 4-6, drew some 8,500 Christian worship music leaders and other church musicians, pastors, vendors and hymn composers from as many as 35 countries.

The church has recorded and produced a CD called Ruth Schaefer's Mansion Over the Hilltop, featuring Schaefer playing 15 traditional hymns like Amazing Grace and The Old Rugged Cross.

Hosny recently attended their St. Patrick's Day concert at the Ryman Auditorium, which featured their hymn as well as gospel songs and traditional Irish music. Everyone was singing along, he said.

The spiritual depth of this traditional style of music is unsurpassed. Clearly, the focus for our parish music leaders should be to recognize the power and transformative nature of the Church's ...

And often, that means less traditional organ music and Christian hymns. But the organist at the West Auburn Congregational Church in Auburn, Maine, is as popular as ever.

But when Chapman performs traditional hymns, few young people attend. "The older folks, they're starved for this music," she says "It reaches a need far down inside of you that this contemporary ...

Hymns "matter to us deeply and touch our hearts in ways that other music doesn't," she said. "People may forget a sermon five minutes after hearing it, but they'll still be singing the hymns to ...