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

Hymn writing should be a spiritual practice for everyday saints, not just for worship professionals. Anyone who has grown up in or around the church is likely familiar with “hymn stories”—the stories ...

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 ...

Fanny Crosby was a well-known American hymn writer who lived in the 19th century. Though she lost her eyesight as a baby, she never let blindness stop her from living a full life. She wrote over 8,000 ...

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 ...

Anyone in search of a rollicking history of gospel that raises the rafters need look no further than Westcoast Black Theatre ...

Worship music engages the eyes, not just the ears and tongues. Worship through song seems to have always been a part of human culture, and hymnals—compilations of written guides to such worship—also ...