What are the best Christmas carols of all time? We asked 50 choirmasters for their choices... here are the results ...
"Hymn texts that have appeared in most hymnals and are still in use today.” The category of “classical hymns” also includes songs such as “In Christ Alone,” at seven years old, one of the younger ...
Edward Mote was a 19th-century English pastor and hymn writer best known for penning the lyrics to My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less. Born in 1797, he overcame a godless upbringing and became a Baptist ...
The hymn “Let the Lower Lights Be Burning,” written by Philip Paul Bliss in 1871, evocatively describes a group of despairing sailors trying to find their way through a perilous sea. “Brightly beams ...
Books of classic hymns and scripture songs are seeing a resurgence, with Crossway publishing officer Don Jones saying these ...
The opening of the hymn is based on Luke 24:29, “Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent”, while the penultimate verse draws on 1 Corinthians 15:55, “O death, where is thy ...
M0NTEVALLO, Alabama -- A brass band in front of the First Baptist Church of Montevallo during the city's Art Walk two weeks ago blasted out a medley of classic Christian hymns played on trumpets, ...
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 ...
Like cider and Rosie, string orchestras and the music of the English Pastoralists are often paired in a heavenly combination, and Goldsmiths Choral Union explored this coupling on Friday evening as ...