Brian McLaren, the liberal “emergent” evangelical activist, re-emerged last week to announce that he is rewriting the hymn “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” The hymn is too warlike, he writes, as is much ...

President Donald Trump’s latest affordability pitch came riddled with head-scratching math. The 79-year-old president ...

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 ...

Music producer and artist Tommee Profitt will bring a whole new spin to beloved Christian hymns, just in time for Easter.

The 27 worship songs that have made the hymnal cut time and again. There are many ways to identify the most lasting or best loved hymns among American Protestants. But what would we find by looking at ...

1. What is your favorite hymn from “The Golden Age of Hymns”? (See the Contents for some still-popular candidates.) What makes this hymn important to you? 2. In what ways is today’s outpouring of ...

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 ...

About a year-and-a-half ago, I went through a devastating breakup and, soon after, began a love affair with perhaps the strangest hobby an ex-yeshiva girl could imagine: Sacred Harp singing.

At 28 years old, musician Matthew Smith is not following the latest trends in popular music. Instead, his style of music is from the old school - the really old school. At first listen, Smith's music ...

Since December, Chinese netizens have been debating whether the country’s recent Christmas celebrations took on more distinctly “Chinese” characteristics than previous years. A popular online meme ...