My lawyer has advised me to bring my will up to date, seeing as how I wrote my last one 25 years ago. Suffice it to say that things have changed since then. One of the things that hasn't changed is ...

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 ...

Maltbie Davenport Babcock was a respected figure known mainly for writing the hymn This Is My Father’s World. Though he wasn’t a professional singer, his words became powerful lyrics sung in churches ...

Katharina von Schlegel (1697–1768) was a German poet and hymn writer. Born into a Lutheran family, she contributed significantly to religious poetry during the 18th century. Though little is known ...

SALEM, Mass. (AP) - “Amazing Grace” sounds a lot different when you sing it to the tune of the “Gilligan’s Island” theme song. That’s why Jeannette Lindholm, an English professor at Salem State ...

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, a fifty-four-year-old pastor from Wilmington, Delaware, is a prolific and celebrated composer of hymns. She’s written around two hundred and fifty of them, and they’ve been ...

Prayer and song is one way to get into the spirit of East Sunday -- ESPECIALLY song, many would say. Our Cover Story is from is from Tracy Smith: If angels somehow descended on Midtown Manhattan, it ...

Viktur Sunday, a Nigerian gospel artist, has released a new album, “My Kinda Hymns, Vol.1,” a collection of seven albums which aims to reimagine and bring life to the orthodox church hymns for a more ...