WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Christmas carol “O Holy Night” ranked first in a list of hymns most played in December at Christian churches in the United States. “O Come All Ye Faithful” and ...

“Now Christmas comes, ‘tis fit that we, Should feast and sing and merry be. Keep open house, let fiddlers play A fig for cold, sing care away.” — Virginia Almanac, 1765 ...

On Sunday mornings, the hymns include “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” and “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus.” Christmas music is the soundtrack to my life in December.

Here's a list of Christmas hymns that capture the reason for the season. Find a mix of modern and traditional religious Christmas songs to play on the holiday.

The choral tour of European Christmas and Advent music includes “Ríu, Ríu, Chíu,” a Spanish villancico (a devotional genre that grew from a popular secular song form during the 16th century ...

20. “Kings of Orient,” the Odds Many attempts have been made to transform Christmas hymns into rock ‘n’ roll songs, very few successfully.

Romans 12:1: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” ...

Christmas music is such a madcap genre because you get the high art, the low art, the deeply sublime, and the sacrilege. You get beautiful traditional hymns about incarnation of God’s son born ...

Piffaro, the Philadelphia-based Renaissance ensemble, is giving audiences a sense of what such a Christmas may have sounded like. The players perform on historically accurate instruments such as the ...

At age 54, Mariah Carey has unquestionably made Christmas her brand, as she proved yet again at the first of two sold-out Hollywood Bowl shows.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Essay Many Christmas standards were not written by Christians. David Lang explains the appeal for him, a Jewish composer of a modern holiday ...

POTTSTOWN — Zion’s United Church of Christ, Hanover and Chestnut streets, will host a Christmas Eve service beginning with special music at 6:30 pm with the candlelight worship service following.