Historian teams up with Chris Tomlin and Hillsong’s Ben Fielding to adapt rare music dating back to the third century.

Inextricably linked with the gospel tradition, the best country songs for Easter are almost always sublime songs of praise.

As Easter weekend approaches, there's no better time to revisit Reba McEntire's angelic rendition of the beloved hymn ...

“This is the only Christian one. And it predates any other notation of a Christian hymn by many centuries.” Scholars have ...

“No condemnation now I dread, Jesus, and all in him, is mine, alive in him, my living Head, and clothed in righteousness divine, bold I approach the eternal throne, and claim the crown, through Christ ...

Several months later a Rhode Island woman composed a battle hymn to inspire American soldiers to fight and preserve the Union. That inspirational lady was Julia Ward Howe. Though born in New ...

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The Akathist Hymn, which in its present form was added to by many Ecclesiastical Hymnographers, existed for the most part even before it was formally accepted by the Church in 626 AD. The Kontakion ...

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 ...

The powerful story behind “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” will change the way you sing it—because it was born from real faith, real sacrifice, and a martyr’s unwavering stand for Christ. I grew up ...