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 ...

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.

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 ...