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Music

New song resurrects the world’s oldest known hymn

A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience

Bob Smietana | Religion News Service

April 23, 2025

Singing unites diverse Virginians at last

Mennonites in Virginia’s Rockingham County range from the Old Order buggy-driving community to Eastern Mennonite University’s liberal arts university community, and everything between.

Phil Kniss | For Anabaptist World

February 12, 2025

Five things Friday roundup: Music for the mood, also known as songs for the season

Like many, music has always affected me deeply. Some of my happiest childhood memories are of dancing in the middle of the living room to

Jennie Wintermote | Anabaptist World

December 20, 2024

Put a little love in your yard

Backyard music festival in North Carolina introduces MCC to diverse communities

Laura Pauls-Thomas | Mennonite Central Committee

August 5, 2024

Girl Named Tom staying true to selves

Sibling musicians navigate success while grandma helps keep things in perspective

Anabaptist World

June 14, 2024

Mosaic Mennonite Conference receives $21,000 grant for vital worship initiative

Mosaic Mennonite Conference received a $21,000 grant from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship to discern the theological distinctiveness and ethnocultural diversity of the church’s

Mosaic Mennonite Conference

May 21, 2024

‘How Great Thou Art’ gets new ending on 75th anniversary of famed English translation

The well-known and beloved-by-many words of “How Great Thou Art” have had a long and varied trajectory from Swedish poem to German hymn to a

Adelle M. Banks | Religion News Service

March 11, 2024

The Soil and The Seed Project releases musical collection for Lent, Easter and Pentecost

The Soil and The Seed Project, an arts ministry of Virginia Mennonite Missions, has released its musical collection for the 2024 Lent-Easter-Pentecost season. The 12

Eileen Kinch | Anabaptist World

February 23, 2024

In ‘Gospel’ docuseries, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores Black church’s music, ministers

The interplay between song and sermon — and the importance of both in Black churches — is the focus of a new docuseries created by

Adelle M. Banks | Religion News Service

February 13, 2024

Music professor shaped hymnals, generations’ relationship with arts

Mary K. Oyer, a music professor who influenced many Mennonites’ relationship with the fine arts, died Jan. 11 in Goshen, Ind. The Goshen College professor emerita of music and former professor of church music at what is now Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary was 100.

Goshen College

January 17, 2024

Lifelong love song

An iconic Anabaptist hymnal inspires a journey of rediscovery — and a last song for Dad

Elam Stoltzfus

January 16, 2024

250 years later, ‘Amazing Grace’ has filled churches, concerts, even commercials

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

Adelle M. Banks | Religion News Service

November 7, 2023
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