Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rooted in the rich tradition of African-American spirituals. Gospel music has evolved over time. The genre's earliest beginnings ...

Children’s minister and artist collect 150 songs to span generations. In 2018, Britta Wallbaum and Lindsey Goetz traveled to a worship conference in Nashville. They hoped to come away with new ...

Joey + Rory's Hymns That Are Important to Us project was so important to them that they recorded it despite Joey Feek's battle with Stage 4 cancer. The album consists primarily of classic gospel hymns ...

Looking back at the painful and difficult history of being Black in America, religion has always been an important cultural and spiritual backbone — constantly sustaining and replenishing the ...

Debra James Tucker knows enough about gospel music to fill multiple hymnals, but no song can top “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.” “I sing because I’m happy / I sing because I’m free,” the chorus, written ...

Christian History Magazine Editorial Staff (Author), Galli, Mark (Editor), Olsen, Ted (Editor), Packer, J. I. (Foreword) I have been trying to imagine a church without music. The organ is boarded up.

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jennie Wilson was a prolific American hymn writer from the late 19th to early 20th century, known for her faith-filled and inspirational lyrics. Despite being confined to a wheelchair due to illness, ...