How about humming hymns set to fast bhangra beats? Sounds a little off the musical track? But that’s what many Jamshedpur churches will be doing this Christmas. Old Christian hymns, nearly forgotten ...

At 28 years old, musician Matthew Smith is not following the latest trends in popular music. Instead, his style of music is from the old school - the really old school. At first listen, Smith's music ...

It was probably an old hymn, but it was new to singer-songwriter Jay Mathes of Lombard. “My God Is So Big” caught Mathes’ ear when his 4-year-old son, Seth, sang it for him one evening after Sunday ...

For nearly a century, Christians of all stripes have been raising “The Old Rugged Cross” as a musical standard. Many know the composer was a man named George Bennard. Few, however, realize that his ...

EVERETT — Pastor Al Baunsgard is ready to sing. On Sunday he’ll welcome others to the Hymn Sing at Bethany Christian Assembly and warm up his vocal cords singing several old gospel hymns. The ...

Fanny Crosby was an American hymn writer, poet, and composer who became blind when she was just six weeks old. Despite her blindness, she wrote over 8,000 hymns and gospel songs, including famous ...

Albert E. Brumley was a legendary gospel songwriter known for heartfelt hymns rooted in faith, hope, and simplicity. I’ll Fly Away is one of the most beloved gospel hymns in American music. With its ...

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, ...