Traditional music and religious orthodoxy don’t always line up. We are Unitarians. We sing traditional hymns, and our choir performs African American gospel music, bluegrass and jazz.

Anonymous wrote:I live in the south but it is rare to even have hymnals in protestant churches nowadays.

The words to songs are projected on the front wall because "modern." I think hymnals are considered dated.

NP - our church started projecting the hymns during Covid when people were weird about touching things. We also made a bunch of AV upgrades related to Covid livestreaming, including putting up screens. We still use the screens, but there are hymnals in the pews and hymn #s noted in the bulletin should you want to sing from a hymnal.

Stick to the mainline Protestant churches.

All of them.

All Episcopal churches do. Lots of golden oldies in rotation at St Albans

Anonymous wrote:Every Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian church we have attended in NoVa (and we have been to all of the ones near us at least once) uses songs from a traditional hymnal during their Traditional services.

The Contemporary or Modern services at the same churches might vary, but I do not know as we do not attend those.

This is same for close-in MoCo. There is usually a service that features contemporary praise music as well as a service that features traditional hymns.

Every Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian church we have attended in NoVa (and we have been to all of the ones near us at least once) uses songs from a traditional hymnal during their Traditional services.

The Contemporary or Modern services at the same churches might vary, but I do not know as we do not attend those.

Our Episcopal Church in Laurel sings hymns from a hymnal. I would look for older congregations in the Episcopal faith close to you.

If anyone knows of any in MoCo as well, I would interested. So tired of the praise songs and solos.

Lutherans still sing songs from a hymnal. Like others have said, some services are more contemporary, but the 10/11 a.m. Sunday service will sign traditional hymns.

Anonymous wrote:I live in the south but it is rare to even have hymnals in protestant churches nowadays.

The words to songs are projected on the front wall because "modern." I think hymnals are considered dated.

Not in the protestant churches I've attended in the DMV -- hymnals still rule.

Anonymous wrote:11:25 poster

I agree with you that even churches that advertise a traditional service maybe have one traditional hymn and the rest modified praise songs.

It is hard to top "It is well with my soul", "Amazing Grace," and "Onward Christian Soldiers"

Episcopalians dropped Onward Christian Soldiers a few decades ago, as being too militant, if OP really wants that one.

The answer is still the Episcopal church. There are a few songs in the second part of the hymnal, but we mostly don’t do them.

Here is a link to a livestream from my church. Is this what you’re looking for?

https://www.youtube.com/live/TPJ75A9Kbv4?feature=shared

I don’t even remember which ones we did - not sure if they did the “good ones”.

I live in the south but it is rare to even have hymnals in protestant churches nowadays.

The words to songs are projected on the front wall because "modern." I think hymnals are considered dated.

11:25 poster

I agree with you that even churches that advertise a traditional service maybe have one traditional hymn and the rest modified praise songs.

It is hard to top "It is well with my soul", "Amazing Grace," and "Onward Christian Soldiers"