In 2020, we celebrated holidays at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We worked at home, attended school at home, even attended worship services at home. Many Christians also turned to hymns for comfort ...

(RNS) — A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the oldest surviving Christian hymn with musical notation — and was ...

Read the main article on why hymnals matter. Controversy sells. It sells newspapers, journals and movies. It may even sell conference registrations, to judge from the frequency with which I’m asked to ...

Hymn writing should be a spiritual practice for everyday saints, not just for worship professionals. Anyone who has grown up in or around the church is likely familiar with “hymn stories”—the stories ...

It’s one of the most popular hymns in the Christian songbook – but apparently the benefits of Amazing Grace are not purely spiritual. For scientists have discovered that belting out the much-loved ...

The band above is the new Dave Douglas Quintet, who we're webcasting live Wednesday night as part of WBGO's The Checkout: Live series. The quintet is actually six people: special guest Aoife O'Donovan ...

(RNS) — In the 1890s, a pair of British archaeologists began digging in an ancient rubbish heap at the edge of the ruins of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, looking for a glimpse into the city’s past. They’d ...