As director of music at Lancaster’s First Presbyterian Church, Mark Williams knows exactly what songs and hymns he will conduct as the church marks its 275th anniversary on Sunday, Nov. 19. Among them ...

It’s no wonder many of the church’s great prayers and meditations have been set to music through the ages. Comforting, convicting and inspiring verses are made even more stirring and memorable with ...

Compiling a hymnal for his fellow Methodists in 1761, John Wesley admonished them to “sing lustily,” keeping always “an eye to God in every word you sing.” True to his urging, Methodists have always ...

1923, and he did so with many, many joyous songs in his heart and mind. late-winter storm two days earlier. But Ackley need not have traveled on March 8, the day of his installment. And he probably ...

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, a fifty-four-year-old pastor from Wilmington, Delaware, is a prolific and celebrated composer of hymns. She’s written around two hundred and fifty of them, and they’ve been ...