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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...