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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

1. What is your favorite hymn from “The Golden Age of Hymns”? (See the Contents for some still-popular candidates.) What makes this hymn important to you? 2. In what ways is today’s outpouring of ...

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 ...

My Aunt Mary Huey — choir director, church youth leader and daughter of a North Dakota pioneer Presbyterian minister — had an unusual hobby. When she left her job at Hemphill Presbyterian Church in ...