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Music

Maryland church hymn sing celebrates 500 years of Anabaptist diversity

A hymn sing celebrated 500 years of Anabaptism Sept. 27 at Hyattsville Mennonite Church in Maryland.

Kyla Hanington

October 22, 2025

New museum in Nashville celebrates Christian music

The new Museum of Christian and Gospel Music in Nashville, Tenn., opened on October 3.

Bob Smietana | Religion News Service

October 15, 2025

Aretha Franklin and the Apostle Paul agree: Sing!

What would a conversation between Aretha Franklin and the Apostle Paul sound like? The question may seem random, as the two figures are so different.

Jason D. Thompson | For Religion News Service

August 12, 2025

What slave songs and martyr hymns taught me about worship

These are turbulent times, marked by division, conflict, and uncertainty. Worship, if it is to remain authentic, must speak clearly and honestly to our lived

Nate Showalter

July 23, 2025

‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ the unofficial Black national anthem, celebrates 125 years

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned it in school

Adelle M. Banks | Religion News Service

June 19, 2025

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
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