BEAUMONT, Texas — For more then 50 years the sound of the bells from First United Methodist Church Groves have floated across this small Southeast Texas town. The bells, now a digital recording run by ...

The bells of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart were pealing on an ordinary weekday night, and those of us who live nearby wondered what it was all about the first time we heard them. We were afraid that ...

After two years of silence, the bells at Trinity Anglican Church rang out in uptown Saint John recently. Hearing the bells ring on Friday morning was an emotional experience, said Jennifer Waldschutz, ...

There are people who hear church bells ringing, smile, and that’s the end of it. I am not one of those people. Despite not having attended church services in years, I listened to the bells recently ...

Pulling a rope the old fashioned way, Dale Winning pealed the bells at the First Congregational Church of Etna as part of the statewide “Bells across Pennsylvania Day” Sunday. Churches bells or any ...

For many members of the First Church of Christ Congregational, a proposal for a new steeple has a nice ring to it. But worshipers won’t be hearing the sound of carillon bells pealing from the ...

The bells of San Diego State University’s Hardy Memorial Tower are as much a part of campus life as cram sessions in Love Library. Flourishes remind students to hurry to class. Joyous peals celebrate ...

I haven’t read much by Russian Booker Prize-winner Ludmila Ulitskaya, but it seems I’ve been remiss. A friend sent me this paragraph from “Sonechka,” translated by Arch Tait: And there was about it ...

AFTER 10 months the silence has been broken and Poole’s celebrated parish bells are again ringing out across the town. The chiming bells of St James’ Church have been much missed with no peal to ...

LETTERS FROM THE RINGING WORLD:Some churches might cheat with recorded bells, but others still have change ringers to create those glorious sounds 'We're a little short on numbers tonight," laments ...