TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The Bristol home of Methodist Charles Wesley is due to reopen to the public later for the first time in a year. Wesley, who died in 1788, was a prolific hymn writer whose 6,000 plus compositions ...

A VICAR is raising eyebrows with her new-style services. That’s because churchgoers have to lift their heads to sing hymns from a 60-inch TV screen at Cramlington Methodist Chapel. Hymn books are ...

For nearly a century, Christians of all stripes have been raising “The Old Rugged Cross” as a musical standard. Many know the composer was a man named George Bennard. Few, however, realize that his ...

Choristers will be singing for a whopping 17 hours as they belt out their entire hymn book. The Offerton Methodist Choir will embark on the challenge to raise cash for two good causes. The 38-strong ...

CAN readers help? I am looking for an old hymn tune called 'Accrington.' I last saw it 60 years ago in an old Methodist hymn book. I would like a copy of the tune and the words, if possible. JAMES ...

PERHAPS the most instantly obvious change in Britain's churches these past 25 years has been the warmth and width of their welcome. Gone are the half-frozen handshake, the brimstone black back row ...

Come to the Green Village United Methodist Church, 500 Spring Valley Road, Green Village, Harding and Chatham Township, for its annual Hot Dog Supper and Christmas Carol Hymn-Sing on Sunday, Dec. 2, ...

What follows are extracts from autobiographical notes written in 2001 for our family history by my Auntie Connie — Sister Connie M. Curtis — who nursed through World War Two. As of November 2003, she ...