Hymns go back to basics The Gettys, who moved to Nashville in 2011, were in Orlando recently to lead worship at the Gospel Coalition conference, which drew about 5,000 people.

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 ...

A Birmingham church will have a hymnfest today with at least 20 hymns chosen based on their broad appeal throughout the South.

Scholars have found a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn praising the city, its citizens, and deity Marduk, with the help of A.I.

I have always drawn strength from old Southern gospel hymns. I was reared in the stone house that once belonged to my grandparents, and it stood beside that little country chapel my mama so loved ...

(RNS) — A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the oldest surviving Christian hymn with musical notation — and was ...

Religion-and-alcohol groups are popping up across the United States In Nashville%2C a group meets once quarterly and sing hymns in a bar Beer and Hymn Sing is attracting a growing number of people ...

But hymns of praise and gratitude have been central to Jewish and Christian worship for millennia. In fact, they go back to one of the best-known scenes in the Hebrew Bible.

The waters tore through the old buildings at Camp Mystic, sweeping away scores of campers and counselors or trapping them in ...

Meanwhile, the Hymn Society released 55 old melodies with new lyrics about terrorism, dementia, climate change, and other modern topics. Should we update old hymns to address modern themes?

Experience the moving lyrics of The Old Rugged Cross, a Christian hymn symbolizing hope, forgiveness, and eternal life through Jesus.

None of these impulses are uniquely Christian, or even religious. But hymns of praise and gratitude have been central to Jewish and Christian worship for millennia. In fact, they go back to one of ...