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 ...

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 ...

Wayne E. Lessmann comes from generations of Texans. So, naturally his first words and early religious experiences were in ... German? "The Lutheran church where we went when I was a child still had ...

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 ...