(RNS) — A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the oldest surviving Christian hymn with musical notation — and was ...

Religion professor T. David Gordon says Muzak has shaped singing in church. In his new book, Why Johnny Can't Sing Hymns (P & R Publishing), T. David Gordon argues that modern worship choruses have ...

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 ...

One Sunday some time ago, I was browsing through Spotify playlists — gospel and blues from the mid-20th century, mostly. At times I find myself wishing for a little more variety in the religious ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later. But one Australian academic's obsession with ...

If Benito Mussolini had dialed in on NBC’s short wave lengths last week, he might have heard Italy’s greatest conductor direct some uncomfortably prophetic music by Italy’s greatest composer. On ...

Hymn writing should be a spiritual practice for everyday saints, not just for worship professionals. Anyone who has grown up in or around the church is likely familiar with “hymn stories”—the stories ...