Churches are retiring their hymnals and organs, hoping to attract younger crowds, but at West Auburn Congregational in Maine, Charles Marshall has been playing for 70 years with no plans to retire.

This is church music: A large pipe organ, often elderly. A lady organist, also rather elderly. A choir in robes, singing hymns from the 1800s or, for another challenge, some sacred music by Bach and ...

Have you ever read the Bible, and certain verses and passages cause you to sing a hymn of praise? That’s a worthy test of song lyrics. Melodies may charm us, but the Word of God, as engulfed in a hymn ...

Prayer and song is one way to get into the spirit of East Sunday -- ESPECIALLY song, many would say. Our Cover Story is from is from Tracy Smith: If angels somehow descended on Midtown Manhattan, it ...

From Jonathan Aigner over at Patheos, some good reasons why the best instrument for a lot of congregational singing is the increasingly-scarce pipe organ: In my experience, the fiercest pipe organ ...

Some claim music is rooted in our souls. Yet, if you've ever suffered through a tone-deaf friend singing along with the radio to one of your favorite tunes, you know that's not always true. When it ...

Late Saturday afternoon, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston, was filled to the rafters with music as participants lifted their voices in song in celebration of the centennial anniversary of the ...

In Chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel we find a rather striking prayer in the form of a litany that is truly a canticle of creation. We read different parts of this prayer on several occasions during ...

It’s no secret that church organists have become scarce these days, as fewer young people are interested in studying organ, and older organists are retiring. An article by Jonathan M. Pitts in the ...

Plagues and suffering have often produced the greatest hymns of hope, help, and joy! Read the lyrics of songwriters who rose above darkness, depression, and disease by singing praise. See what you can ...

Dallas has had an ambitious church music and pipe organ scene since at least the 1960s. Numerous churches have elaborate music programs with full-time personnel, and, especially in the last 20 years, ...

Thanksgiving doesn’t ring in the ear for months on end, unlike another holiday that lies just ahead. Yet readers may remember a couple of hymns that roll around each November in church, around the ...