Devotional hymns of Shaiva saints Appar, Sambandhar and Sundarar of the medieval age, are the Thevarams sung in a combined stream of song and music. These are acknowledged as one of the more ...

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 ...

Frances Ridley Havergal was a British woman who lived from 1836 to 1879. She was a talented writer and poet who loved God very much. Frances wrote many beautiful hymns and religious songs that people ...

Charles Wesley was one of the most influential hymn writers in Christian history and a co-founder of the Methodist movement. He wrote over 6,000 hymns in his lifetime, many of which are still sung ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Wherever there are even a handful of Sikh or Punjabi families, prabhat pheris — early morning devotional processions — begin days before the birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. These processions, filled ...

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 ...

The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will implement a formal ban this week on the singing of certain contemporary hymns at Mass because of doctrinal inaccuracies in their lyrics as well as a ...