The choir from The Church of God Tabernacle (True Holiness) in Liberty City in the 1970s with their new robes. Bea Hines is standing to the right of the woman in the center. Courtesy of Dr. Walter T.

Editor’s note: “The Spoken Word” is shared by Derrick Porter each Sunday during the weekly Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square broadcast. This will be given Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. This week is No. 5,055 ...

In many churches, they have. But the choral tradition is finding enthusiastic advocates elsewhere. Nathan Glasper Jr. directs Calvin University’s gospel choir, an ensemble that started as a club at ...

Father John Ubel, pastor of the Church of Saint Agnes, processes into the sanctuary with altar servers at the start of one of the Catholic parish’s Latin Masses in St. Paul, Minn., Sunday, June 28, ...

The Vatican responded aggressively Thursday to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent, declaring the Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicating its bishops ...

The Black church choir has long been one of the most influential pillars in Black music, giving the world timeless hymns, unforgettable gospel classics, groundbreaking praise and generations of ...

Black church choirs are dwindling as praise teams rise across many congregations, a shift shaped by COVID-19, changing church culture, and the growth of contemporary worship. As traditional choirs ...

A great deal of my own scholarship and writing has centered on Hagar, who is one of my favorite biblical characters. Had my knowledge of her story not been informed by womanist scholars like Wilda ...

Barnaby Smith conducts the VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra in this filmic, festive arrangement of 'O Come All Ye Faithful' by VOCES8 composer in residence, Taylor Scott Davis, as part of the ...

Being an AI Doomer Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry The Faithful often eschews biblical teaching for a Hollywood retelling. When I first saw the advertisement for Fox’s series The Faithful: ...