‘I grieve for his family, friends, and our Divinity community,” said Edgardo Colón-Emeric, dean of Duke Divinity School, where Abbington had planned to teach in the fall. The post ‘Dean of African American Church Music’ James Abbington Dies at 65 After Duke Appointment appeared first on Word&Way.| Word&Way
It’s official: “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” is part of the Church’s new hymnbook.| LDS Living
In the October 2024 general conference, Elder Patrick Kearon said:| LDS Living
As a mother of a four-year-old who loves music, one of the nine new hymns added to the Church’s hymnbook recently in particular stood out to me. Not only because it’s likely intended for kids but because, in just four lines of text, this song is as simple as it is sweet and teaches meaningful…| LDS Living
Lane Johnson started composing musical arrangements in mid-1970, when his choir teacher at Westwood High School in Mesa, Arizona, encouraged him to arrange a choral version of a song he had learned in Primary for the choir to sing. His choir teacher’s support in those beginning days gave him the…| LDS Living
I am delighted that “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” is back in the hymnbook. But there is one part our congregations are singing incorrectly. In the second verse of the hymn, the narrator praises the redeeming power of the Atonement:| LDS Living
This weekend marked the 195th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Here’s a look back at the April 2025 general conference by the numbers.| LDS Living
Why is our faith shallow part I I’ve argued that we have a discipleship crisis, and outlined some of what I mean by that. I intend to take a few posts exploring why that might be. There are, I thin…| nuakh
"Christians are taking on this role of witnessing publicly---even paying the cost of being arrested---in order to witness to compassion for refugees."| Bearing Witness