To see these hymns as encouraging violence requires a crude literalism rendered incoherent by the lyrics themselves.

Among the new batch of 48 hymns released by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints you’ll find an African American spiritual. “I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me” was released along with 10 ...

Hymns are “important in the history of ideas, the formation of culture, and the inner life of individual readers,” J. R. Watson reminds us in this time when the disciplines of hymn writing and singing ...

Fans of a beloved contemporary Christian hymn won’t find any satisfaction in a new church hymnal. The committee putting together a new hymnal for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) dropped the popular ...

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his ...

Initially written as a Christian hymn, the song was written by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton in 1772, and later published in 1779.

Keith and Kristyn Getty base songs on rock of Christianity, rather than Christian rock.

Howerton had been at the Wild Goose Festival, a Christian gathering in Hot Springs, N.C., when she saw festivalgoers attending a Beer and Hymns event every night.

About a year-and-a-half ago, I went through a devastating breakup and, soon after, began a love affair with perhaps the strangest hobby an ex-yeshiva girl could imagine: Sacred Harp singing ...

Roti tu Zindagi di Yashu Khawa de Aabe Hyaat naal tu saanu Pyal de... is not any Punjabi number but the traditional Christian hymn with a Punjabi touch. The most important hymn that the group will ...