A new edition of "The Sacred Harp," a Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry ...

The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing it and carry on the Christian songbook’s more than 180-year-old folk ...

Keith and Kristyn Getty hope their songs end up in dusty old hymn books. The Gettys, originally from Belfast, Ireland, hope to revive the art of hymn writing at a time when the most popular new ...

HYMN books are expensive. Even with discounts and donations, a new set of hymn books for a parish church can run into thousands of pounds. So, when the dilapidated books stacked at the back of church ...

The James Weldon Johnson Foundation’s "National Hymn Choir" sang "Lift Every Voice and Sing." NFL fans waiting for the draft to begin took it all in before NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell ...

There is nothing more difficult to put into words than the sublime. The thing to be described might be a piece of music, a scenic vista or a jolt of transcendent love. The challenge of defining ...

there are huge riches to be discovered in the Anglican hymn books that we were never allowed to use as children, and I personally use hymnbooks as a source of prayers, because the words are beautiful.

“The black experience is sort of wrapped up in that hymn.” In a review of another book on the hymn, Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem, Robert Fleming writes about ...