Featuring powerhouse vocalists and legendary gospel group Take 6, Tomb Slayer’s debut album blends sacred lyricism with ...
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 ...
Fanny Crosby was a well-known American hymn writer who lived in the 19th century. Though she lost her eyesight as a baby, she never let blindness stop her from living a full life. She wrote over 8,000 ...
Hymns are “important in the history of ideas, the formation of culture, and the inner life of individual readers,” J. R. Watson reminds us in this time when the disciplines of hymn writing and singing ...
A local author and musician is using music to celebrate Black History Month and connect the community through the rich traditions of gospel.
Having just celebrated Easter as a Christian, I am very much aware that many of my neighbors are brothers and sisters who come from other faith traditions. And as I write a “spiritual reflection” for ...
Worship music engages the eyes, not just the ears and tongues. Worship through song seems to have always been a part of human culture, and hymnals—compilations of written guides to such worship—also ...
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 ...
A few years ago, Sarah Brightman was planning to make a re-entry into the earthly world after a trip to space. That space adventure did not happen, but Brightman found she had to make a re-entry of ...