Sung to the god Marduk, patron deity of the great city, the hymn describes Babylon's flowing rivers, jewelled gates, and ...

The motto was selected by Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and is a quotation from Psalm 72 which holds ...

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a ...

Look into the classic Christmas hymn Hark! The Herald Angels Sing — full lyrics, background on Charles Wesley, and more.

The new global hymnbook for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Hymns — For Home and Church,” is expected to be released in English mid-2027, the church announced Tuesday.

Christian singer/songwriter Chris Tomlin's latest single, "The First Hymn," is only partly his. The key words and the message belong to Christian believers from the third century.

Dickson said there are earlier Christian hymns — including several in the text of the New Testament — but none of them has the musical notation found in the P.Oxy. 1786.

Her most well-known hymn, “Stille, mein Wille, dein Jesus hilft siegen,” was written in the mid-18th century and later translated into English as “Be Still, My Soul” by Jane Laurie Borthwick.

The Akathist Hymn is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five Fridays of Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church (the first four in parts and the fifth in ...

Keith Getty wrote the tune for In Christ Alone on the back of an electric bill and sent it to his friend, Stuart Townend, another modern hymn writer. Townend wrote the lyrics and began playing it ...

Stevens once became so old-fashioned that he covered “Morning Has Broken,” a hymn from the 1930s. Generally, pop stars want to seem like they’re on the cutting edge of music.