John Mason Neale was best known for his work in church music. He wrote and translated many hymns that are still sung today. His music had deep spiritual meaning and a gentle, peaceful tone. Some of ...

(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 ...

Four hundred years ago, the ancestors of the song leaders who recently gathered in an Ephrata-area church likely would have sung the same hymns in the same way. They would have been sung in German, ...

The Greek hymnos refers to a song of praise similar to the ode, and in the Christian tradition in the Middle Ages, these are predominantly in Latin. Vernacular hymns arise early in the Reformation and ...

WHETHER hymns have a place in literature has been frequently questioned, perhaps generally doubted. Dr. Johnson’s objection to devotional lyrics, if rather confident than well considered, availed to ...

Sanford Fillmore Bennett was an American writer, pharmacist, and lyricist born in 1836. He is best known for the famous gospel song Sweet By and By. Though he worked mainly as a druggist, he enjoyed ...

Why it's a good choice: One of the most sung hymns at funerals, this is really a prayer to God to stay with him in death as He did with us in life. Henry Francis Lyte, Vicar of Brixham in Devon, had ...

It’s the most melodious time of the year. Even if you’re not religious, many people enjoy soaking up the blessed sounds of Christmas hymns and carols during the December holidays and beyond. While ...

A congregation sings songs from the Church hymnbook. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a global church. (Church Newsroom) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the ...