When it comes to celebrating Easter, few traditions stir the heart quite like the singing of timeless hymns. Whether in ... a message that never fades: He is risen — and that changes everything.

“He is risen, indeed!”), the same sermon text, the same doxology and benediction. And the same hymns. I have not worshiped ... we bury those old and full of years, those born without breath ...

Rev. Paul Ferrin began holding these “Old Fashioned Hymn Sings” three years ago. Now he has quit his job as national music director of the Assemblies of God denomination to stage the revivals ...

A HYMN that was composed ... work at the 174-year-old church. Mr Mann, aged 20, was asked to rework the hymn by church council member Stephen Tonge. “I knew he would make a good job of it.

He was said to have averaged 10 poetic lines a day for 50 years. He wrote 8,989 hymns, 10 times the volume composed by the only other candidate (Isaac Watts) who could conceivably claim to be the ...