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

Four hundred years ago, the ancestors of the song leaders who recently gathered in an Ephrata-area church likely would have sung the same hymns in the same way. They would have been sung in German, ...

I have to confess that my heart sinks when we sing a song in church that’s less than 30 years old. Hymns are one of the only remaining doors through which names, sounds, and words from the church’s ...

In the late 1990s a small group would gather at the McDonalds in Dayton, Tn. to sing the old Gospel songs. They brought their instruments and it was hamburgers and hymns. Eddie Hixson, who has been ...

It’s almost time for Bill and Linda Hullander’s January Red Back Hymnal Singing. This month’s event will be held at the Ridgedale Baptist Church, 1831 Hickory Valley Road. Mr. Hullander said special ...

CAMBRIA - The Columbia County community that owes its origins and name to immigrants from Wales will celebrate its Welsh heritage Sunday by carrying out a tradition that's at least six decades old.

Christian congregations have not always been allowed to lift up their hearts in songs of praise. St. Ambrose, 4th Century Bishop of Milan and teacher of St. Augustine, seems to have started ...

Members of the Ethnic Committee are shown, from left, first row: Carol Jones Wolosz, Heidi Ceklosky, Jean Bonn, Bette Lee Devers and Betty Jones. Second row: Bill Morgan, Kevin Ceklosky, Scott Jones, ...

Gospel quartet: The Old Time Preachers Quartet performs at Ewtonville Baptist Church, 2420 Old Union Road, Dunlap, Tenn., at 6 p.m. Saturday, then at Pathway Baptist Church, 2830 Woods Cove Road in ...