Debra James Tucker knows enough about gospel music to fill multiple hymnals, but no song can top “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.” “I sing because I’m happy / I sing because I’m free,” the chorus, written ...

Rooted in the rich tradition of African-American spirituals. Gospel music has evolved over time. The genre's earliest beginnings are found in the music sung, and passed down, by enslaved people in ...

Gospel music has always played a big role in American culture. Now the music's wide-ranging history is being celebrated at Nashville's new Museum of Christian and Gospel Music.

I have always drawn strength from old Southern gospel hymns. I was reared in the stone house that once belonged to my grandparents, and it stood beside that little country chapel my mama so loved. If ...

The Oak Ridge Boys will soon have a new album of gospel hymns available for their fans. The quartet, made up of Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, William Lee Golden and Richard Sterban, will release Rock of ...

Children’s minister and artist collect 150 songs to span generations. In 2018, Britta Wallbaum and Lindsey Goetz traveled to a worship conference in Nashville. They hoped to come away with new ...

MARION — Some churches have them, that half-page sized red book, filled with hundreds of pages of hymns. In a little more than a week, local organizers will celebrate that style of singing — and those ...

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 ...

Gospel Hymn Sing, Saturday, July 24, 3 p.m., Wolfsville Ruritan Community Park, 12708 Brandenburg Hollow Road, Myersville. Wolfsville Ruritan Club is sponsoring a Gospel Hymn Sing under the main ...