Stephen Jones currently works as a professor in the School of Music at BYU. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in music composition from BYU and a master's and doctorate in music composition from ...

SALT LAKE CITY — More than 400 hymns and children's songs will be included in a new combined book to be released by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2026. While the full book will be ...

After six years and thousands of submissions, the team tasked with the much-anticipated overhaul of the Latter-day Saint hymnbook announced Monday plans to release 12 songs that will appear in the ...

The new song’s composer thought it could be a way to again hear from Black churches, collectively, about civil rights.

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: One of the problems of many churches — of all varieties — is finding and keeping really good music directors. For many of the best of them, it takes a sacrificial devotion to ...

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 Harp” and its music notes ...

Randall Sensmeier has spent decades playing the organ, composing music and leading congregations in song. But he has also been bringing to light new church composers and their work. The 74-year-old ...

Ask any Christian, and they’re likely to tell you their earliest experiences of religion are ones of music. The memories of voices swelling with song or a grandmother softly humming a favorite tune ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in the process of publishing a new hymnal. It will be entitled Hymns for Home and Church and it will be available in English, French, Spanish and ...

(RNS) After 33 years and many requests for an update, the LDS Church is revising its hymnal to reflect Mormonism's global membership. (RNS) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced ...

You can almost hear the hallelujahs. Mormons who for decades have been thirsting for new songs to sing at Sunday services are getting their wish: a new hymnbook. It will take a couple of years to come ...