A long-lost, popular song used in Babylon schools has been reconstructed, revealing how children learned to write and civic ...

The new song’s composer thought it could be a way to again hear from Black churches, collectively, about civil rights.

(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 ...

Maria Solis is at home with the sprawling, diversity of Catholic liturgical music in the United States. Growing up bilingual in Texas, she saw the eclectic cultural influences of music at Mass, and, ...

After observing the robust, practically obnoxious enthusiasm of football fans from the SEC, it’s okay if we are now the ones ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A hymn with lyrics written by President Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is among the latest batch of songs released for the church's ...

"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" was originally a poem by James Weldon Johnson. "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," a civil rights hymn that speaks to the faith and resilience of African Americans, was sung for ...

I don’t have a copy of my parish hymnal at home, but I know that, through the years, we often have sung the hymn, “We Walk By Faith.” Some of the lyrics are very appropriate to recent Sunday Gospel ...

Did you know that Edgar Allen Poe once penned a hymn to Our Lady? Poe, the tortured poet of the American Romantic Movement, is best known for his stories of mystery and the macabre — stories like “The ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., wants a song about faith and resilience long revered in the Black community to become the national hymn and help unite the country after centuries of ...