Sitting and looking out on the frothy waves crashing on the rugged shoreline outside the window of our room at an inn in ...

The Daily Yonder highlights a centuries-old Appalachian hymn singing tradition, still uplifting souls through heartfelt ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brian McLaren, the liberal “emergent” evangelical activist, re-emerged last week to announce that he is rewriting the hymn “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” The hymn is too warlike, he writes, as is much ...

George Linney once compiled a list of 300 church hymns he knew by heart, first verse to last. But his favorite was “Blessed Assurance,” the traditional and quietly elegant ode to the power of faith ...