(RNS) — Congregations without bells can ‘honor in other appropriate ways, including moments of silence, changing church signs, and more,’ reads the interfaith request about Lewis. (RNS) — It’s not ...

That sound you’ll be hearing on and around the West Haven Green during the city’s annual holiday tree lighting festivities Saturday — and again Sunday morning — is the sound of the bells in the First ...

This Easter, church pews are mostly empty. The coronavirus saw to that. But at many churches, bells are still ringing. It’s a sound that brings comfort to people, even as they deal with changes ...

Have you ever noticed how certain sounds have the ability to affect your entire being? Recently, I was completing an errand in Huntington when a sound began to fill the air. It was so beautiful, I was ...

For a long time I did not hear the beauty of church bells; or more accurately, I did not wish to hear it. They sounded only like Christianity, which in my early years was a vexing triumphalist ...