hymns
Big churches sound alike. Little churches are the ‘Wild West’ of music, study finds.
By Bob Smietana — July 7, 2023
(RNS) — Worship professor Will Bishop said that focusing on the most popular worship songs can miss what churches are actually singing.
The simple faith of gathering together and giving thanks
By Jacob Lupfer — November 23, 2022
(RNS) — These hymns ring loud in my consciousness after other trappings of devotion have fallen away.
Marking its centennial, Hymn Society continues push for more diverse music
By Adelle M. Banks — July 22, 2022
(RNS) — Members danced and sang to a global selection of hymns and grappled with the power of song to change the world.
New podcast ‘Hark!’ explores the stories behind the most beloved Christmas carols
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 8, 2021
(RNS) — Christmas carols are packed with theology and history that even the most regular churchgoers may not know, according to podcast host Maggi Van Dorn.
RNS News Quiz: Singing in church and atheists who watch Fox News
By Emily Churchill — May 29, 2021
(RNS) — Test your knowledge of the week's current events in the world of religion.
Harry Connick Jr., bunkered for the pandemic, emerges with ‘Alone With My Faith’
By Maina Mwaura — April 6, 2021
(RNS) — While it’s reverent, the album is anything but churchy.
Yolanda Pierce on grandmother theology, Black Jesus and Mariology
By Adelle M. Banks — February 16, 2021
(RNS) — 'I'm really trying to shift the discourse about who can do theology and what counts as theological source material,' says the first woman dean of Howard University’s divinity school and the author of the new book, 'In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit.'
Keith and Kristyn Getty’s Sing! conference goes online, focuses on singing at home
By Bob Smietana — August 29, 2020
NASHVILLE (RNS) — Hymn writer Keith Getty hopes the pandemic will lead to a renewal of singing at home. That message will be part of the Getty Music annual Sing! conference, which will be held online this year.
When church hymns don’t grieve with us
By David Taylor — March 11, 2020
(RNS) — It’s hard to find solace in church when the hymns are mostly in major keys. In times of grieving, the Psalms can comfort us in the losses we all experience.
Hymn society tournament reveals ‘greatest hymn of all time’
By Adelle M. Banks — July 19, 2019
(RNS) — More than 800 people, mostly members of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, voted during the competition that featured brackets similar to the springtime NCAA basketball tradition.
‘Greatest hymn’? Sacred song enthusiasts vote in ‘madness’ tournament
By Adelle M. Banks — July 5, 2019
(RNS) — Will it be 'Holy, Holy, Holy!'? Or how about 'How Great Thou Art?' Or one of six others in the Elite Eight that were announced on Tuesday?
As activists rally, hymns of protest rise again
By Adelle M. Banks — August 8, 2018
(RNS) — Just like the music of the civil rights movement, old and new songs are often led by people of faith and sometimes refashioned to appeal to people of a range of backgrounds.
Listen to what the campaign soundtracks tell us about our spirituality
By guest — August 12, 2016
(RNS) These are now our hymns, psalms, and spiritual songs.
How ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ made American religion real
By Jacob Lupfer — July 6, 2016
(RNS) Over four decades, Garrison Keillor showed what is good, endearing and enduring about his brand of Protestantism.
Are Christian hymns too warlike? (COMMENTARY)
By Russell Moore — February 25, 2016
To see these hymns as encouraging violence requires a crude literalism rendered incoherent by the lyrics themselves.
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