Randall Black has fond memories of growing up singing in a small church. He recalls the hymns offered up at Carbondale’s Grace United Methodist Church, and he remembers the way those songs were sung. ...

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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, ...

There was a time when hymns were used primarily to drive home the message that came from the pulpit. But then came the praise songs. Matt Redman's song "Our God" is the most popular piece of music in ...