The new song’s composer thought it could be a way to again hear from Black churches, collectively, about civil rights.

It’s a good thing “Come, Come Ye Saints” is so familiar to James Davis Jr. and the Third Baptist Church choir in San Francisco. Davis Jr. recently began rehearsals with the cast as the musical ...

“Lining out” is the practice of singing or stating the upcoming lines of a hymn for the congregation by a song leader or preacher. Typically, the words are stated quickly, and then sung in a drawn-out ...