Written in 1870 by Cheshire vicar, John Ellerton, the theme of the hymn is the worldwide fellowship of the Christian church and its unceasing offering of prayer and praise to God. The tune “St ...

I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

This lovely and most widely known Christian prayer for peace, with its broadly inclusive language, has been very frequently set to music. The most well-known hymn version is this one, written in ...

Explore the structures, genres, and theologies of the Psalms to gain a greater appreciation for them in your own prayer life, and their role in ... will have the opportunity to explore lament psalms, ...