THE FIRST HYMN, a powerful documentary about how an ancient manuscript brought a historic Christian song back to life, will arrive ...

Brian McLaren, the liberal “emergent” evangelical activist, re-emerged last week to announce that he is rewriting the hymn “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” The hymn is too warlike, he writes, as is much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In ancient Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, archaeologists found the earliest Christian hymn with lyrics and music. Studied at Oxford, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Truly, songs that touch on spirituality bear some of the best melodies, richest refrains, and most meaningful messages. There is a reason they’ve lasted hundreds, if not thousands of years. Here at ...

I am not proposing that “Lift Every Voice and Sing” be designated as a co-anthem or displace any existing national symbol.

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 ...

Since December, Chinese netizens have been debating whether the country’s recent Christmas celebrations took on more distinctly “Chinese” characteristics than previous years. A popular online meme ...