FROM the soil of the monastic life, which might seem, for many reasons, to have been unfavorable to such a development, there sprang and bloomed some of the rarest flowers of Christian poetry. There ...

More than a thousand years after it was last heard, a long-lost hymn to the ancient city of Babylon has been brought back to life, thanks to AI. This remarkable rediscovery gives us new insights into ...

I never thought I would like old hymns as much as I like them these days. When I say old hymns, I mean the kind of songs that people sing in church that sound like they’ve been around since before ...

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“There is music in my soul today, for when the Lord is near, the dove of peace sings in my heart, the flow’rs of grace appear. …” –From the gospel song “Sunshine in My Soul,” written in 1887 by Eliza ...

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 ...

Thanksgiving doesn’t ring in the ear for months on end, unlike another holiday that lies just ahead. Yet readers may remember a couple of hymns that roll around each November in church, around the ...

MercyMe’s Bart Millard gets Hymned Again with another collection of church favorites reinvented for a new generation. So, Bart, you’ve been “hymned again”—what led you to return to the well, so to ...