Isaac Watts was an English singer and hymn writer known for shaping early Christian music. He wrote over 750 hymns, many of which are still sung today in churches around the world. His most famous ...

The first of three 2025 Hymn Festivals offered by area congregations to celebrate the “Music of the Church” will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, at Christ the Lord Lutheran, 12N462 Tina Trail Road, ...

Latter-day Saints sing in a meeting in Manaus, Brazil. President Russell M. Nelson plays the piano at the conclusion of the 2021 Global Youth Music Festival on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. In a message ...

After six years and thousands of submissions, the team tasked with the much-anticipated overhaul of the Latter-day Saint hymnbook announced Monday plans to release 12 songs that will appear in the ...

(RNS) — Rahel Daulay, a Methodist who had traveled from Indonesia, was explaining the proper way to dance while singing a hymn she had brought from Southeast Asia — bending knees slightly “to humble ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later. But one Australian academic's obsession with ...

Does a wretch by any other name fit the tune? Modern hymn writers (in this case, re-writers) seem to think so, and adjustments to the second line of "Amazing Grace" are now relatively common. "Saved a ...

(RNS) — In the 1890s, a pair of British archaeologists began digging in an ancient rubbish heap at the edge of the ruins of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, looking for a glimpse into the city’s past. They’d ...

Protest music has a deep and rich history in the United States. One could even say it was born right alongside it. From "Yankee Doodle" being sung back in defiance at the British soldiers who ...