As part of its annual four-day celebration of Catholic education, liturgy and spirituality, the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress commissions a song to be used for its liturgies. This year the ...

Yet even at their annual worship conference, there’s room for multiple styles of music to declare the stories of the Bible. The success of “In Christ Alone” established Keith Getty as one of the ...

I HAVE a friend who always calls — when he remembers to, for alas! he sometimes forgets — the Methodist Church building in our village, a ’conventicle.’ I wish he did not sometimes forget, for nothing ...

Music of the church, beginning with hymns and melodies stretched all the way to, and before, the reformation era in the 1500s with composer and theologian Martin Luther, has shaped and the songwriting ...

The Gather hymnal, whose ubiquitous 2004 2nd edition still guides countless Catholic parishes in song, is now in its 4th edition. Released earlier this year, this newest edition is advertised as being ...

BALTIMORE — Some Catholics have long complained that traditional hymns have been “modernized,” “vandalized” and “feminized” for “political correctness” at the expense of art and theology. Last month, ...

How Moody and Sankey got mentioned, I do not know— but they did; and our friend insisted that Moody and Sankey could not conceivably be so bad as the modern Catholic hymns. We exclaimed; she ...