I visited Bethany Free Will Baptist Church’s 11 a.m. service Dec. 29. The church sits between the North Fox Hall and Sherwood neighborhoods on Azalea Garden Road. Sitting with Kathy and Mick Shaw, I ...
'Amazing Grace' as it appears in Ginny Hawker's family heirloom songbook, Lloyd’s Primitive Baptist Hymns. You can see stains in the margins, left by the tobacco-covered hands of her aunt Annie Maud ...
It’s an invitation to worship with no spoken word, just music. The Big Sing will welcome any interested singer to join in a choir of hymns on July 25. The free event is one of the first of its kind in ...
In 1983, Esther Burroughs penned some lyrics about keeping a Christian home and entered them in a Southern Baptist hymn-writing contest. Some time later, her husband, Bob — who had made a name for ...
The sounds of hymns will fill the First Baptist Church sanctuary Sunday during the church’s second annual Hymn Festival. The festival will be 3 p.m. at 211 W. Comanche St. and will be hosted with the ...
“I’m not trying to be embraced by religious people,” says Chicago-bred, L.A.-based singer Sir the Baptist, his sincerity tangible even through the phone. “It’s not necessarily what the religious ...
BRATTLEBORO -- The Brattleboro community is cordially invited to join in an old-fashioned sing-along of favorite church hymns at the First Baptist Church, 190 Main St., on Sunday at 3 p.m. This event ...
BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) In Bristol, Virginia, a 155-year-old church served as the hub for the black community during segregation. It bears a new name since its creation in 1865, and has a pastor who has ...
It’s one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...