Hymns go back to basics The Gettys, who moved to Nashville in 2011, were in Orlando recently to lead worship at the Gospel Coalition conference, which drew about 5,000 people.

The church released the first 13 songs from “ Hymns — For Home and Church ” on Wednesday night on its Gospel Library app and in the Music Library on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

When electric guitars became commonplace in worship music, many members of church congregations were outraged. Over the last 20 years, however, we’ve seen church reinvent music.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Tuesday that the church’s new hymnbook will have around 375 hymns and children’s songs in its printed version and is expected to be ...

“Each hymn has additional commentary regarding its theological importance, word definitions, applicable context information, scripture references, and/or worship notes, all written at an ...

Only 1 in 10 sang mostly modern songs, while the same percentage sang mostly hymns. Worship leaders pick most of the music, often with no input from the church’s pastor.

The sheet music for the official hymns of the upcoming National Eucharistic Revival was made available online last week.

In recent decades, churches have moved to rocking praise songs made popular by Christian radio. Now, some modern hymn writers are looking back to a more traditional style.

The data corroborate recent research about consolidation in the worship music industry and the small circle of influential songwriters producing chart-topping worship songs.

Sheet music was made available online last week for the official hymns of the upcoming National Eucharistic Revival, which were chosen from among hundreds of entries in a contest last summer.