Getty has sometimes called “In Christ Alone” a “rebel song” — a kind of protest against the more contemporary worship songs that sound more like pop music than traditional hymns. It was ...

Read our latest issue or browse back issues. All of which came as a surprise to the song’s authors. In a 2016 interview recounting the origins of “In Christ Alone,” Townend said there was nothing ...

In Christ Alone is actually a collection of 10 new worship songs, written in the structure of an old hymn and arranged against traditional and modern Celtic-pop backdrops.