In a class on ministry, Will Willimon often referred to “the great theologian of our age”—meaning Bob Dylan, whose poetic expression of antiwar convictions helped Willimon articulate a Christian ...

Anyone thoughtful — no matter what their spiritual leaning — can appreciate the art of the hymn: the rhythm, the sonorous language, the discipline and structure. My first encounter with that power — ...

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his publisher ...

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 ...

Some claim music is rooted in our souls. Yet, if you've ever suffered through a tone-deaf friend singing along with the radio to one of your favorite tunes, you know that's not always true. When it ...

For several years when my aunt, English teacher Linda Haynes, was the music leader at my hometown Methodist church, she often prefaced hymns with accounts of how they came to be. Those stories always ...

The Rengma Baptist Church Kohima (RBCK) today observed Hymn Sunday in Kohima. Various fellowships presented Christian hymn at ...