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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON--Churches across the world are able to sing the Lord's praises online after the launch of the first major digital hymn book on Thursday. Mission Praise--which has sold more than 2 million ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later. But one Australian academic's obsession with ...

Collected and Arranged by NEHEMIAH ADAMS, D.D. Boston : Ticknor & Fields. THE Rev. Dr. Bushnell, in August, 1852, delivered an address upon “Religious Music” before the Beethoven Society of Yale ...

In 2020, we celebrated holidays at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We worked at home, attended school at home, even attended worship services at home. Many Christians also turned to hymns for comfort ...

Feb. 14 is the midpoint of the month. It's the date on our calendars that cupid's arrow seems to find quite easily. That chubby cherub's dead-eye aim separates the first half of February from the ...

You’ve probably never heard this famous hymn. That’s a shame. The church has forgotten the old hymn “Come, We That Love the Lord.” I’ve never heard this song in any worship service and I’ll bet you ...