At the beginning of the Christmas Eve service at Lititz Moravian Church, the congregation is cloaked in darkness as it begins to sing “Stille Nacht” — the German version of “Silent Night.” “It’s so ...

Christmas has an island vibe at First United Methodist Church Missouri City this year — thanks to a band of carolers strumming ukuleles. The classics, like “Away in a Manger,” “What Child Is This?” ...

I entered parish ministry with a fair amount of idealism, particularly liturgical idealism. Inconveniently, the liturgical proclivities I picked up in seminary were not especially popular with my ...

In most ways, the Christmas service at Gethsemane Lutheran Church yesterday resembled the Yuletide customs of churches throughout the city. Hymns were sung, and the pastor read a sermon on the ...

Instead they are installing giant screens in the nave using an iTunes app to guide the congregation through the words. Trendy vicars claim that the new-tech approach makes people sing louder. Article ...

Sir, – I must take issue with Fr Desmond O'Donnell's view that the time has come to eliminate or rewrite most Christmas hymns because their words are "holy smoke" to the modern generation ("Most ...

Rabbi Harold Englander, who protested last week to the Board of Education that the Christmas story and Christmas carols were being taught in Kingston public schools in violation of the rule against ...