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

A new Kannada liturgical hymn titled ‘Pavitra Kutumba’ was officially released on June 21 in Shivamogga by the musical ensemble Spiritus. The hymn, which highlights the sacredness of family life ...

Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned ...

See the complete lyrics of Leaning on the Everlasting Arms hymn that share a message of peace, faith, and trust in God's ...

Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior is a hymn about asking Jesus for mercy and not to overlook the person praying. It expresses a ...

Once largely confined to insular networks, contemporary Christian music is having a breakthrough moment on the pop charts ...

In the United Kingdom, millennials are bonding over an unusual shared touchpoint: the hymns they sang in their elementary ...

Newer Christian music often makes the ... said she often thumbs through the indexes of those hymn books while she's working on new lyrics and looking for ideas. The daughter of a pastor, she ...

Charles Cosgrove’s 2011 book, An Ancient Christian Hymn with Musical Notation ... Tomlin and Fielding have reworked the lyrics so they fit neatly over a singable melody. Tomlin calls the ...

In 1918, archaeologists digging on a rubbish dump at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt discovered a tattered piece of papyrus on which was written the earliest surviving Christian Greek hymn that contains lyrics ...

Archaeologists unearthed the scrap containing the earliest known Christian hymn from the ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. Known as "P.Oxy 1786," the scrap contained lyrics of ...

On the other side were the music and lyrics to a song. That song would turn out to be one of the oldest Christian hymns ever found. “We have about 50 examples of musical compositions with ...