Sacred Mysteries: How hymns in Latin got a new life in England

Often people who don’t go to church think that those who do go spend their time there singing hymns. Yet there is no explicit provision for parish hymn-singing in the Book of Common Prayer, and, in ...
Religion News Service

250 years later, ‘Amazing Grace’ has filled churches, concerts, even commercials

(RNS) — James Walvin, a former Church of England choirboy and professor of history at the University of York, doesn’t remember encountering “Amazing Grace,” in song or in his hymnal. It wasn’t until ...
JSTOR Daily

‘Shew Us Thy Salvation’: Charles Wesley and the Liturgical Year

https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.11.2.0166 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/weslmethstud.11.2.0166 Copy URL ABSTRACT Charles Wesley's objection to his ...
Oregonian

Holy hymnal: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral to sing all 720 hymns to raise money for trip to England

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Choir and its director, Michael Kleinschmidt, hope to raise money to travel to England in August by singing all 720 hymns in the Episcopal hymnbook. (Trinity Episcopal ...