After winning a Songwriter of the Year Dove Award in 2008, Christian music veteran Cindy Morgan released Beautiful Bird, her first record independently of long-time label home, Word, to five-star ...

A NEW and fuller biography of the author of the Morning and Evening Hymns is an addition to those memorials of Christian character which are the best ornament of the Anglican church, welcome to all ...

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 ...

Not long ago a radio speaker declared that a good Bible hour is better than a dozen sermons. One may be justified in saying also that a good evangelical hymn is better than much of the preaching one ...

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 ...

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 ...

(RNS) Thousands of churches in dozens of countries have registered to sing “Facing a Task Unfinished,” revamped by contemporary hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty. (RNS) Thousands of churches across ...

Read the main article on why hymnals matter. Controversy sells. It sells newspapers, journals and movies. It may even sell conference registrations, to judge from the frequency with which I’m asked to ...

John Rippon was a renowned English hymn writer and singer, best known for his contributions to Christian music in the 18th century. His collection, Rippon’s Hymns, became widely popular, particularly ...

Famous Christian artists Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding have revived a third century hymn discovered on ancient Egyptian papyrus, releasing a contemporary version of the song ahead of Easter. Titled ...