ALL ARE INVITED to the Pennington United Methodist Church Hymn Sing & Organ Recital, the second program in its 250th Anniversary Celebration series, on Sunday, April 21st at 3 p.m. From the beginning ...

For three years a joint commission representing the Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, South and the Methodist Protestant Church has been working on a revised hymnal and psalter.

Like many Methodists, Leon French grew up believing some of his favorite hymns were set to tunes of drinking songs – just as “The Star-Spangled Banner” used the melody of English tavern favorite “To ...

The United Methodist Church may not remove “Onward Christian Soldiers” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” from its new hymnal after all. The church’s Hymnal Revision Committee, which voted in May ...

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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 ...