MARION — Some churches have them, that half-page sized red book, filled with hundreds of pages of hymns. In a little more than a week, local organizers will celebrate that style of singing — and those ...

Rooted in the rich tradition of African-American spirituals. Gospel music has evolved over time. The genre's earliest beginnings are found in the music sung, and passed down, by enslaved people in ...

Nelly Juárez Villegas and Luke Hannah were reminded of their devotion to their faith moments before going onstage at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s MacGorman Chapel. The two are students ...

You know "Glory" by now—after all, it's been one of the talks of the town as of late, and certainly one of Common's most visible hits in some time. The song, written for the film Selma, which follows ...

Aurora's Wesley United Methodist Church rocked with gospel music Sunday, Sept. 18. The church held a community hymn sing that featured more than 20 requests by congregants. Selections included ...

There are only a handful of people alive today who participated in the formation of modern gospel music in Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s. Fewer still worked directly with the genre’s founding ...

Carrie Underwood is celebrating the release of her first gospel music album. On Friday, the seven-time Grammy winner dropped "My Savior" on which she recorded songs she used to sing in church while ...

Thousands of gospel music fans from around the world will flock to Bill Bailey’s annual convention in Manatee County next week. Pastor Bill Bailey has been organizing the popular annual gospel show ...

In 1981, an industry newcomer named Jubilant Sykes released his debut album, Number of the Lord, with Light Records, the same ...

Picture this: It's sometime in the early 1990s, in rural Oklahoma. There's a little Baptist church – it's Sunday, and inside of the church everyone is wearing their nicest clothes. They listen to the ...

In the view of many people, the American South is a complex phenomenon. One aspect of its complexity is that cultures brought there from Africa and Europe interacted with one another despite efforts ...

Joachimsthal is a town in Bohemia that was founded on the eve of the Reformation. Silver was mined there and turned into “the standard silver coin of sixteenth century Germany, the Joachimsthaler or ...