The fat red Service Book and Hymnal used by the Lutheran Church in America includes ten hymns with words or music by Martin Luther—and not one of them is among the top ten favorites of Lutherans ...

Luther wrote several, worked on their tunes, and helped publish them. Today, many of the Lutheran chorales are familiar as hymns used in Protestant churches, sung in four-voice harmony. When he worked ...

O come, O come, Emmanuel is a Christian hymn for Advent and Christmas. Originally written in Latin (Veni, veni, Emmanuel), its haunting melody goes back as far as 15th-century France. Wachet auf is a ...

The Rev. Stephen Starke, 55, of Bay City, is pastor at St. John Amelith Lutheran Church and the author of 175 hymns. Where do you get inspiration for your hymns? Sometimes the inspiration comes as ...

Keillor explains the difficulties of keeping a music director at the nearby Holy Trinity Lutheran church. Lutherans have a wonderful history of congregational hymn singing. And Luther himself said ...

The choir, made up of women and two men from the Lutheran-established mission, is now taking the songs back to Germany for a performance tour. The hymns are sung mostly in the local languages of ...