Chances are the selections from “Songs I’ve Always Known” that Michael McCown will perform at an upcoming concert are songs that just about everybody in Abilene knows, too. McCown, a 1992 Cooper High ...

My favorite hymn is “It is well with my soul,” which was composed in the 1870s. The lyrics go as follows: “When peace like a river attendeth my way/When sorrows like sea billows roll/Whatever my lot, ...

Barbara Burley of Oakes, N.D., noticed a Neighbors item in which someone recalled a radio pastor years ago singing "An Evening Prayer" during each program. But that person couldn't recall the lyrics.

Oh, WOW! what a task I have assigned myself here! I had been thinking about this topic for a long while, not knowing where to start - and I still do not! I contemplated doing some actual research into ...

America received more responses than usual to our survey about favorite hymns. “‘How Can I Keep From Singing?’ is a hymn that has helped me express my joy in the better days of my life and gotten me ...

When people in church raise their voices in song, it's like praying, twice. That thinking has been traced to St. Augustine and is the basis of a new program for Lent at Church of Peace United Church ...

Favorite hymns in North Iowa appear to run the spectrum from old and traditional church hymns to more contemporary songs. With countless hymns to choose from, responses to the Globe Gazette reader ...

The Night Job Trio—a school administrator, MD and attorney—and Oakland’s Bethlehem Lutheran Choir performed with stunning clarinet improvisations. A remarkable circa 1990 recording of Martin Luther ...

When I wrote about the night a woman arose at a little church we were visiting in Highlands, N.C., and proclaimed that her favorite hymn was also the favorite hymn of Southern humorist Lewis Grizzard, ...