When people in church raise their voices in song, it's like praying, twice. That thinking has been traced to St. Augustine and is the basis of a new program for Lent at Church of Peace United Church ...

There’s been a thread of Christian spirituality running through Carrie Underwood’s work since the beginning, whether explicitly, as in “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” or more ambiguously, in “See You Again.” ...

Christian Singer/Songwriter Michael Stosic, from Reno Nevada, has just released his eleventh studio album on September 12, 2024 entitled “My Favorite Hymns”. I remember the Sunday services at the ...

Stephen Colbert is generally keeping a low profile in the news media while he prepares to take over CBS’ “The Late Show” from David Letterman in September. But he gave a video interview to the ...

This story first aired on 2/18/2015. If you’ve seen the movie “Selma,” you know that one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s favorite gospel songs was “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” by Thomas A. Dorsey. The ...

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 ...

JOHN SARAKA CONTRIBUTING WRITER One of my favorite Advent hymns is Prepare the Royal Highway, a Swedish Folk Tune written by Frans Mikael Franzen. Because I live in Central New York, I cant help but ...

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 ...

Adam Guettel’s genre-clashing song cycle has taken on many forms. The latest: a starry online mini-series. By Joshua Barone Listening to Adam Guettel’s song cycle “Myths and Hymns,” after a year of ...