By Shirley Shuman Sharon Williams, one of the dulcimer players in the music group, the Strumalongs, probably described the ...

TYLER, Texas — Sunday morning at Green Acres Baptist Church was the first service since the passing of longtime senior pastor ...

The full hymn was scattered among fragmented pieces of clay tablet, but using an AI program, experts were able to piece ...

The year was 1947 and a new church building, Everett Springs Baptist, was dedicated in Armuchee. This structure was made of ...

Scholars have found a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn praising the city, its citizens, and deity Marduk, with the help of A.I.

Gospel concerts by Gerald Crabb, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Nov. 2, 7 p.m. Nov. 3 and 7 p.m. Nov. 4, Grace Gospel Church, 4385 E.

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a song and soon cherished as an anthem. In its 125th ...

Trees encircle Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church, which has been a historical meeting site for Sacred Harp singers for generations, in Bremen, Ga., on Sunday, March 23, 2025.

Who are the Sacred Harp singers using a more than 180-year-old hymnal today 1 of 7 | Rodney Ivey keeps time while singing from the tenor section at a Sacred Harp singing event at Holly Springs ...

1 of 5 | Isaac Green, 34, flips through his personal copy of “The Sacred Harp,” a shape-note hymnal linked to a more than 180-year-old American folk singing tradition, at Holly Springs Primitive ...

BREMEN, Ga. — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred ...

In Middletown, at the First Baptist Church’s Ash Wednesday evening service, I had a similar experience to those I had at home. The service I attended was small, very open, and welcoming, which ...