In a small, wood-framed church on a hill overlooking the ocean in Sedgwick, Maine, Bill Henderson belts out hymns. In Simple Gifts (Free Press, 162 pp., $12.99), Henderson -- who founded and edits the ...

Long before modern worship music filled auditoriums, there was a simple hymn that said everything faith needed to say in a handful of lines. “Jesus Loves Me” has stood the test of time not because it ...

20 popular hymns and worship songs suitable for weddings.

Mourners sing 'We Shall Overcome' outside the historic Emanuel AME Church(Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images) How did a simple hymn rise to become a world-wide civil rights anthem, described by the US ...

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Conductor Donald Nally leads The Crossing in a rehearsal of David Lang's''poor hymnal,'' at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey ...