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 publisher ...

"Many cultures have Christmas hymns, but the particular tradition among Poles is very strong," said the Rev. Aron Maghsoudi, ...

Church leaders should be ensuring their congregations are singing theologically and doctrinally rich songs, award-winning ...

To create their secular-hymn criteria, the trio looked at Cohen’s “Hallelujah” as a baseline and explored other songs that have been used repeatedly in public settings for purposes that cross over ...

In a class on ministry, Will Willimon often referred to “the great theologian of our age”—meaning Bob Dylan, whose poetic expression of antiwar convictions helped Willimon articulate a Christian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looking back at the painful and difficult history of being Black in America, religion has always been an important cultural and spiritual backbone — constantly sustaining and replenishing the ...

%27In Christ Alone%27 a favorite new hymn with youth Gettys write songs as lasting testament They want their music to connect with souls NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Most songwriters in Nashville want to get ...

A handful of classic rock songs have religious overtones. For example, one of Cat Stevens’ songs is a rewrite of a Christian hymn. That’s very interesting, considering that Stevens is now one of the ...