A month or so ago, we put up a guest post on Church music, and shortly after we received from David Stoker an email containing a letter he had recently sent to the Church Music Committee. After extensive traveling, he was concerned about the ways Church music sometimes failed to uplift and inspire various members [...]
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Appropriate music for church meetings: What does “in keeping with the spirit of the hymns of the church”really mean?
I am sure I am not the only one who has puzzled over this. The music section in the Church Handbook of Instructions (and posted on LDS.org) suggests hymns as [...]
This last Sunday for Mothers’ Day, my ward sang one fantastic hymn (”O My Father” 
and one hymn I didn’t particularly care for (”Home Can Be a Heaven on Earth”).
So, in my mind, I’m envisioning my ideal Mothers’ Day sacrament meeting. And the hymns I would choose - hymns that empower women, mention women, speak [...]
When I was twelve years old, my grandmother gave me a very special gift for Christmas. It is still one of my prized possessions— a copy of Latter-Day Saint Hymns, the first LDS hymnbook in which the lyrics and music were combined. It replaced LDS Psalmody and the Songs of Zion. Printed in 1927 [...]
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