The Hymn Society, founded in 1922, has been a mainstay for congregational singing and scholarship in hymnody for 100 years. Reflecting mainline liberal Protestantism’s embrace of the homosexual ...

Ho Chi Minh City (AsiaNews) - For the first time the Vietnamese bishops have had government permission to publish a collection of hymns (see photo). The initiative was presented during the week ...

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 ...

The main portion of the work is reprinted from the Psalmist, published by the American Baptist Publication Society, in 1843. The hymns which form the supplement have been added "with special reference ...

Although archaeologists have excavated 500,000 cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamian sites over the last two centuries, about half of these texts now in museums around the world haven’t been thoroughly ...

Like our recent guest blogger Emily Wenneborg, I’ve often found that hymns and history can “work together to deepen our love for Christ’s church.” But reading a recent history of the hymnal also ...

Songs that kindled memories of growing up in churches during the 1940s and 1950s are fading into silence. And the four-part harmony that many of them required could go with them into history, ...

Randall Black has fond memories of growing up singing in a small church. He recalls the hymns offered up at Carbondale’s Grace United Methodist Church, and he remembers the way those songs were sung. ...