(RNS) — W. James Abbington Jr., an expert on Black religious music known for his editing, teaching and playing of congregational music, has died at the age of 65. GIA Publications, for whom he worked ...

Both free and enslaved African American people in antebellum America composed and performed music in a wide variety of styles. Like their white counterparts, they listened to and performed the songs ...

I love to go Christmas caroling. A couple of decades ago, we would print out the lyrics to songs like "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," travel around from house to house, and sing about Jesus at the top ...

The Daily Yonder highlights a centuries-old Appalachian hymn singing tradition, still uplifting souls through heartfelt ...

How can we choose hymns and Sacred Music fit for Eucharistic celebration? The USCCB's document on hymnody levels the debate.

Several hymns were temporarily banned last year in the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri after being found to be ...

Traditional worship is rising and becoming more beautiful, Nana Afua Tabiri, priestess of the historic Obuor Tabiri Shrine in the New Juaben Traditional Area, has declared as she marked 40 years of ...

Sitting and looking out on the frothy waves crashing on the rugged shoreline outside the window of our room at an inn in ...

Actress Mimi Chakraborty ushered in Durga Puja by sharing a personal glimpse of her family's traditional 'Barir Pujo' on social media. Her elegant photograph with a gold-ornamented Maa Durga idol and ...

POTTSTOWN — Zion’s United Church of Christ will worship at 10:15 a.m. Sunday in the sanctuary at Hanover and Chestnut streets with Rev. Homer Royer as guest pastor, conducting the service. Rev. Royer ...