When a denomination puts together a new hymnal, it doesn’t just throw together a bunch of songs. It forms committees. Lots of them. Take the new Southern Baptist hymnal. Five years in the making, the ...
In 1983, Esther Burroughs penned some lyrics about keeping a Christian home and entered them in a Southern Baptist hymn-writing contest. Some time later, her husband, Bob — who had made a name for ...
My Aunt Mary Huey — choir director, church youth leader and daughter of a North Dakota pioneer Presbyterian minister — had an unusual hobby. When she left her job at Hemphill Presbyterian Church in ...