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 ...
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 ...
church in “metropolitan” Wilkes-Barre. But that is exactly what the 36-year-old Rev. Alfred Henry Ackley did in 1923, and he did so with many, many joyous songs in his heart and mind. late-winter ...
A pair of Presbyterian Church (USA) pastors and hymnwriters, Stephen M. Fearing and Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, joined earlier this month to offer a virtual workshop on hymns that resist Christian ...
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 ...