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A phone with the new hymns displayed is posed on top of a physical copy of a hymn book. Christopher West said hymns are like prayers to Heavenly Father. (Kiana Aquino) BYU students shared their ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Grace Community Church congregants in Sun Valley gathered indoors and sang hymns on Sunday (July 26), defying California regulations that aim to limit the spread of COVID-19. “This ...

“Amazing grace,” intoned the eulogist, and repeated it. He began to sing: “how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me,” and the congregation, a bit startled, joined in, as the pianist scrambled ...

As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in Newton’s New ...

(RNS) — James Walvin, a former Church of England choirboy and professor of history at the University of York, doesn’t remember encountering “Amazing Grace,” in song or in his hymnal. It wasn’t until ...

President Obama, in words and song, urged the nation to heal its racial rifts in a riveting Friday farewell to the black pastor murdered by a hate-fueled racist killer. Some mourners wept and others ...

ROCK HILL (AP) — In the Bible Belt, some might not think it possible to worship God with a hymnal in one hand and a beer bottle in the other. But that’s what worshipers do at Epiphany Lutheran Church.