It’s one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

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, ...

I have to confess that my heart sinks when we sing a song in church that’s less than 30 years old. Hymns are one of the only remaining doors through which names, sounds, and words from the church’s ...

Is there any better form of group singing than an informal hymn sing? I don’t think so. Last month my parents and their neighbors hosted a meal and hymn sing that benefited a local Mennonite school.

Father Yuri Sanko, spokesman for the Belarusian bishops’ conference, is pictured in an undated photo. Sanko has downplayed a police raid on the Minsk’s Catholic cathedral July 4, 2021, although a ...

A Belarusian bishops' spokesman downplayed a police raid on Minsk's Catholic cathedral, although a prominent lay Catholic warned arrests elsewhere suggested the move could signal further police action ...