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

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 ...

Some claim music is rooted in our souls. Yet, if you've ever suffered through a tone-deaf friend singing along with the radio to one of your favorite tunes, you know that's not always true. When it ...

Read the sidebar article on the making of the new PCUSA hymnal. Hymnals are more like telephones than automobile tires. Tires wear out visibly and require replacing. Telephones, on the other hand, ...

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

(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 ...

Hymnals in many churches went the way of VCRs and cassette tapes, in favor of big screens and downloading worship songs through licenses with liturgical music publishers. Now, however, books of ...

The 27 worship songs that have made the hymnal cut time and again. There are many ways to identify the most lasting or best loved hymns among American Protestants. But what would we find by looking at ...