Lü Xiaomin never received formal music training. But her worship songs have made her a household name in China’s churches. At 5 a.m. every day, Lü Xiaomin kneels on the floor in a dimly lit room of an ...

“To be a specialist about hymns is rare.” He is also an author/composer who has contributed to several hymn collections. His name adorns number 256, the final song in Hymns for Worship: "God We Sing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hymn writing should be a spiritual practice for everyday saints, not just for worship professionals. Anyone who has grown up in or around the church is likely familiar with “hymn stories”—the stories ...

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 ...

Music of the church, beginning with hymns and melodies stretched all the way to, and before, the reformation era in the 1500s with composer and theologian Martin Luther, has shaped and the songwriting ...

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.

There was a time when hymns were used primarily to drive home the message that came from the pulpit. But then came the praise songs. Matt Redman's song "Our God" is the most popular piece of music in ...