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 ...

The hymn about peace was not familiar to most in the small African American congregation on Sunday, including Marlyn Robinson, but the hope was. She was thinking of her cousin in Kuwait, Marine ...

Traditional hymns may be fading as churches look to contemporary music to attract younger crowds, but Dave Talbott is keeping the old music alive. Retired in September after 41 years as director of ...

It's one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

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 ...

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 ...

As far back as the 18 th century, German monks brewed and drank beer during the solemn religious observance of Lent, which is the six weeks that leads up to Easter Sunday. Arthur Guinness, who was the ...