As director of music at Lancaster’s First Presbyterian Church, Mark Williams knows exactly what songs and hymns he will conduct as the church marks its 275th anniversary on Sunday, Nov. 19. Among them ...

It’s no wonder many of the church’s great prayers and meditations have been set to music through the ages. Comforting, convicting and inspiring verses are made even more stirring and memorable with ...

Rev. Carolyn Gillette, of Pike Creek, has had her second book of hymns, “Songs of Grace,” published by Upper Room's Discipleship Resources earlier this summer. Gillette, co-pastor of Limestone ...

Compiling a hymnal for his fellow Methodists in 1761, John Wesley admonished them to “sing lustily,” keeping always “an eye to God in every word you sing.” True to his urging, Methodists have always ...

A tradition of more than three decades will take place again next month at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Fort Myers, as an official sanctioned event of the Edison Festival of Lights. The ...

1923, and he did so with many, many joyous songs in his heart and mind. late-winter storm two days earlier. But Ackley need not have traveled on March 8, the day of his installment. And he probably ...

Elisha A. Hoffman was an American Presbyterian minister and a well-known hymn writer. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1839 and lived until 1929. He wrote the lyrics for many hymns, including “Leaning ...

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, a fifty-four-year-old pastor from Wilmington, Delaware, is a prolific and celebrated composer of hymns. She’s written around two hundred and fifty of them, and they’ve been ...