They knew that “Amazing Grace” would make the cut and that “How Great Thou Art” was a sure thing. The committee that chose the 250 hymns for Hymns for Worship considered these songs “classical hymns,” ...

After six years and thousands of submissions, the team tasked with the much-anticipated overhaul of the Latter-day Saint hymnbook announced Monday plans to release 12 songs that will appear in the ...

REXBURG — Members of the BYU-Idaho community (students, faculty/staff and community) are invited to submit original hymn texts for use in the 16th annual BYU-Idaho Hymn Festival to be held in 2021.

Gathering for the first time since the pandemic, the interdenominational group discussed the importance of global churches finding their own rhythms. Rahel Daulay, a Methodist who had traveled from ...

Does a wretch by any other name fit the tune? Modern hymn writers (in this case, re-writers) seem to think so, and adjustments to the second line of "Amazing Grace" are now relatively common. "Saved a ...

Dave Meder’s latest album isn’t the typical sort of music you’d hear in a church. But the University of North Texas music professor and jazz pianist doesn’t shy away from religious sounds or ideas in ...

Isaac Watts was an English singer and hymn writer known for shaping early Christian music. He wrote over 750 hymns, many of which are still sung today in churches around the world. His most famous ...

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, ...