I’ll never forget my first Torrey session with Dr. Isaac Blois. After our usual devotional, he passed out tiny slips of paper ...

Fans of a beloved contemporary Christian hymn won’t find any satisfaction in a new church hymnal. The committee putting together a new hymnal for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) dropped the popular ...

Christian Edition, an internationally-known men's chorus from Southern California, will perform classic Christian hymns and ...

Simply stunning. Last night, American Idol aired their special themed live episode officially titled "Songs of Faith," where ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The intersection of Broadway/opera and sacred music seems like a natural fit. Both are often larger than life, both speak to a very specific message, and both use a wide range of instrumentation and ...

Nothing like a golden oldie on the radio to get the feet tapping and the memories rolling. But for First Congregational Church of Houston, which prides itself on a progressive theology and an ...