In her 1993 hymn, “Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom,” the Ruth C. Duck personified wisdom as “she who clears the path to justice, showing us what love must do.” The same can be said of Duck, the ...
Michael Robertson grew up singing church songs out of hymn books—classics like “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” and “Lord, I ...
That's regrettable. It's also regrettable that hardly ever do we think about the life of the authors of hymns and why they wrote what they did. My new book, A Joyful Noise, selects 24 - there could ...
Pastor Karina de Vega, who was assigned to counsel Nigerian prisoner Okwudili Oyatanze – dubbed "The Death Row Gospel Singer" and one of those executed on Nusakambangan Island in the early hours of ...
Retirement is more and more a thing of the past whether we like it or not. In the case of rock and pop, that sometimes means nostalgia tours that hit state fairs in the summer, but there are a lot ...
Carols can be traced back to Latin hymns in fourth-century Rome ... composed in 1948 and Boston Pops Orchestra’s delightful instrumental version was recorded the following year for Decca.
Celebrate this holiday season with 25 of the best Christmas hymns to prepare your heart for the birth of Jesus Christ! Rejoice in the arrival of the Messiah as prophecied in the Old Testament, saving ...
Although John also wrote some hymns, his specialty was in preaching the Word of God, while Charles wrote many of the best-known and loved Christian hymns that we continue to sing today. Filled with a ...
That initiative also faced backlash from those who felt that altering historical hymns compromised their original intent and theological significance. Help keep The Christian Post free for everyone.
A friend emailed about an atheist she knew who came to church. He came with his wife in order to listen to the hymns. Although he wasn’t a believer, there was something about the hymns that drew him.