Chris Tomlin reflects on rediscovering and reimagining the earliest known Christian hymn and shares how the ancient song ...

THE FIRST HYMN tells the story of how the most ancient hymn ever discovered returns as Christ’s followers sing it once again.

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 ...

Understandably, it became more commonly known simply as “the large hymnal.” The first hymn in that first edition was “O, for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In ancient Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, archaeologists found the earliest Christian hymn with lyrics and music. Studied at Oxford, it ...

(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 ...

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 ...

She was once the queen of the congregation—always elegantly dressed and with a delicate smile. She is the wife of a former pastor who died a long time ago. He was a good man, but her influence in the ...

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 ...

See the ward’s hymns and lessons, get a digital copy of a patriarchal blessing, save progress in study plans and more ...

At 28 years old, musician Matthew Smith is not following the latest trends in popular music. Instead, his style of music is from the old school - the really old school. At first listen, Smith's music ...

About a year-and-a-half ago, I went through a devastating breakup and, soon after, began a love affair with perhaps the strangest hobby an ex-yeshiva girl could imagine: Sacred Harp singing.