When Western missionaries arrived in Africa in the 19th century, they disallowed the use of native musical instruments in ...

Phil Wickham is an American contemporary Christian singer, songwriter, and worship leader from San Diego, California. Born into a musical family, he began leading worship at a young age and released ...

“To be a specialist about hymns is rare.” He is also an author/composer who has contributed to several hymn collections. His name adorns number 256, the final song in Hymns for Worship: "God We Sing ...

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 ...

While churches praise God from whom all blessings flow, they don’t praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The Trinity almost never comes up in the songs sung by American Christians, according to a new ...

A worship pastor in South Bend, Ind., is getting attention for a song he wrote "calling out" evangelical supporters of President Trump. Daniel Deitrich, the pastor for arts and worship at South Bend ...

It's Easter time, and whatever you've got on the calendar to mark the occasion, don't forget about the music. Whether you're meeting up with friends, attending service or hosting a brunch for the ...

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 ...

Most church choirs are accompanied by organs, pianos and flutes. But the sounds of humpbacked whales? The howls of wolves? The chirping of rain forest birds? They were among the "voices" woven into a ...

(RNS) — ‘In this time of uncertainty and fear, Christians around the globe turn to scripture and turn to song for comfort,’ according to the website Hymnary.org. (RNS) — In 2020, we celebrated ...