An Indigenous choir from Hermannsburg in Central Australia has blended its ancient singing traditions with 14th Century German hymns, in a tribute to its mission history. The choir, made up of women ...

Hymn writer Martin Franzmann was born Jan. 29: 1907: in Lake City: Minn. His friend Robin Leaver, author of “Come to the Feast,” a book about Franzmann, writes that the boy “grew up within the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir is a group of 32 Aboriginal women from remote ...

The creative ability of Lutheran hymn writer Martin Franzmann appeared early on. Even as a youngster, he was known for his cleverness with language. To entertain his chums, he’d sometimes make up ...

Martin Rinkart was a German Lutheran pastor and hymn writer, born in 1586 in Eilenburg, Saxony. He lived during one of Europe’s hardest times, the Thirty Years’ War, when famine, disease, and violence ...

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 a ...